Sometimes it happens to students that they conceive ideas that are contextually original to them but which someone else has already beaten them to in print. That happens in every discipline, actually, and it can be really frustrating if someone is anxious to finish a dissertation and begin their academic life, so to speak (which these days usually means…
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