The first sentence of a review in the current TLS reads:
Academic publishing now customarily surrounds the canonical authors with Companions , collections of critical essays aimed at undergraduates and taught research students.
Before I say anything more, please decide if that gives you pause at all. Question inside.
VinnyD, although I have been excoriated for being provincial in my use of southwest U.S. English, I will absolutely agree with you this time. Not only could an American not have written that sentence, I firmly believe that even an educated American reader couldn't make sense out of it…you included. LOL
I'm not a Brit and read it, as you did, as
aimed at (1) undergraduates and (2) taught research students
But I think that's how it's supposed to be read. Googling "taught research students" and "taught students" turns up some pages that suggest that this actually is a category of students in the UK. Example.
But what are they?
#2 --Ay, I should have googled it, shilgia. Thanks.
But we've still got a question for when the British contingent wakes up: what's a taught research student?
#3 -- apparently so. maz.
Ay, I should have googled it
#4 -- Nah, it's always nicer to have a discussion here and see what comes up than to Google things and get the narrow answer to your question.
