2008/12/17 Phil Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
What? WP:NOR barely mentions lit crit or anything related to it. It's a general policy that applies to literature as much as it does to science or history. I think you may be a little paranoid...
Lit crit, however (or more broadly, English departments), is the general discipline under which writing and research skills are taught these days.
I disagree. A scientist learns how to read and write scientific papers in their science classes. A historian learns how to read and write historical papers in their history classes, etc. An English professor isn't going to know the first thing about judging the credibility of a paper on Quantum Electrodynamics.