Aye. That's why one of the best things I got from my university was a lifetime membership to the library with graduate benefits! This means full access to scholarly databases, electronic books, and (when they get it) the Google Books collection! I have trouble imagining life without this...<br>
<br>I don't ever recall having a seminar on how to do research - that was drilled into our heads in high school, and then the bit about 'reliable sources' in college (at least I think that's where I learned it...).<br>
<br>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donahrm@gmail.com">donahrm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My "College Writing Seminar" included a component on finding and evaluating sources, though it could have been more in depth. Hopefully they've updated it to reflect how much more we rely on the web these days! Even my master's program, I am sad to say, lacked a required research methods course, which is a shame (at least, since it's a library program, we had the concepts spread throughout the courses).. I agree that it's really important to integrate it into students' education.<br>
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Though we're not 100% lazy -- we'll use the scholarly databases, too, as long as they provide full text!<div class="im"><br>
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Google and Wikipedia also produce big problems in research. Students today get all of their information from these places without being taught how to differentiate between a reliable source and an unreliable source. I feel<br>
this has more to do with the teachers failing to understand how to use these resources and teachers also failing to teach their students how to look for resources even 'the old-fashioned way' (or perhaps the students either<br>
aren't being taught this or they just don't care). I wonder if we just need to have a class that teaches students how to do research at a college level using modern technology and make that required. Not that I'd be very<br>
interested in teaching a bunch of freshmen that... But I could probably<br>
outline one.<br>
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-Devin<br>
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