Dear Heidi,
Yes, indeed, postgraduate students are expected to behave professionally when entering the discourse.
Undergraduates are allowed to just muck around. Sometimes, in their mucking around, they come up with interesting things from uneducated first principles.
Usually, it is the job of teachers to let undergraduates know that their "novel" solution is a version of Heraclitus or Heidegger or Bob the Builder.
There is hope in the heart of all teachers, that the innocent student might stumble across something genuinely new to the field.
Sometime old timers like to pretend that they are innocent undergraduates just mucking around. Do they know how to behave? Yes. Might they be naughty? Yes.
cheers
keith
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Subject: Re: On the Topic of Topics
Dear Keith,
Well, yes... but.
PhD students are expected to have done background reading on their subject matter. If you want to define "thing," there is a body of literature to examine before you leap in "to have another go." You are not offering "another" opinion if you don't know what the original opinions were. This general principle is known as "education."
Or, as Truman Capote legendarily put it, around 1957, "that's typing, not writing."
Heidi
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