The author of the passage suggests that it is a disadvantage of the strategy employed in the experimental scholarly methods course ______.

A. that students were not given an opportunity to study women writers outside the canon
B. that little scholarly work has been clone on the work of Elizabeth Griffith
C. that most of the students in the course had had little opportunity to study eighteenth-century literature
D. that students were not given an opportunity to encounter certain sources of information that could prove useful in their future studies