> I do agree that the advisor should have pushed back lots harder on the methods; it's a weak paper, even as an experience report. I agree - this seems to be m

> I do agree that the advisor should have pushed back lots harder on the methods; it's a weak paper, even as an experience report. I agree - this seems to be mostly the advisors fault, by the looks of it it's not that the student didn't put a lot of work into it but methodological problems are what advisors are supposed to be there to address; I saw a lot of this back in college, at least with technical papers it's easy to tell what's wrong, with the humanities it's just a complete disaster.