I started my master's degree in special education this summer and am writing my first paper on autism. First of all, I made the mistake of not reading my syllabus close enough and did around 4 hours of research only to find out that my sources need to have been written within the last 5 years. So, despite the fact that all of the information is still accurate, all but one of my sources is out the window. Also, none of the resources from an autism conference I attended are valid....even though they contain some ground-breaking research. So, I e-mailed my professor about this little issue. Her suggestion was to just find peer-reviewed journals.
Neat.
Except public libraries don't carry many peer-reviewed journals and because I am not attending a major university and this is an online course, I don't have access to a library that carries the types of peer-reviewed journals that I need.
Aha - I will use the internet to access said journals.
Oh, wait....I can't! Why? Because, in order to access the journals online, I have to pay around $100. To download a single article is around $34. I'm sorry, but I am not going to spend what I paid for this class again just to get research materials.
I think this assignment is a bit unreasonable considering the nature of the class and the students involved. Because, I would guess, none of the rest of the class has access to libraries that have the required kinds of resources either. I hope there is a class review at the end of this so that I can (politely) share my thoughts.
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