she even cites a study suggesting that digital availability of journals makes references more recent (people don’t bother to read the older stuff)
Every class I had in linguistics stated that anything older than ten years was a secondary source at best, unless it was the first-or-only. Literature allowed a wider spread, depending on the style of criticism, but...
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Date: 2014-12-29 01:55 am (UTC)she even cites a study suggesting that digital availability of journals makes references more recent (people don’t bother to read the older stuff)
Every class I had in linguistics stated that anything older than ten years was a secondary source at best, unless it was the first-or-only. Literature allowed a wider spread, depending on the style of criticism, but...