research?
does googling count as research? i guess research in the general, less than academic sense. i wonder how many first years - and maybe older students, too - try to pass off projects researched on google? i bet someone will write an analysis of googling as the *new* research and other changes to the educational landscape brought on by the interweb.
posted by bls @ 7:47 AM
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Certainly a lot of my students feel that googling is as good as research - some of them (international students often from a discipline outside arts, so I can forgive them) cut and paste the url from the google/yahoo page of search results. But in the wider sense I bet googling really is a first stop for a lot of people, and might be the only stop.
I didn't explain that properly. I meant they cut and paste the URL into their bibliographies, as though this in itself is an adequate citation.
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