[UTKSIS-L] [Air-l] How is the Internet bad for us? (fwd)

[Heidelberg, Chris]

As a PhD student, I understand the concern by professors about excessive
online citations. However, the future of research will be just that
electronic based research with electronic citations because of the economics
of maintaining libraries and the costs of books, especially textbooks and
research based books. This current discourse reminds me of the concerns by
teachers during the 1970's when I was in grade school and parents and
teachers complained about the use of calculators, and now nearly every math
and science class requires excessive calculator usage because of the element
of time. My point is that students should have the fundamentals of great
research and practice it; however, we all need to recognize that when Google
finishes its work it will simply be too easy and practical not to fully
utilize electronic services. The more important key may be that students
properly give credit to sources and that the sources be "approved" by the
professor. Davis is an excellent person to teach the basics.

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On 6/22/05, chodge5 at utk.edu <chodge5 at utk.edu> wrote:
> 
> A colleague of mine from Buffalo send these suggestions:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Phil Davis at Cornell University has done some work on the citation 
> patterns of undergraduate papers and excessive use of Web-based 
> resources and how to break the habit:
> 
> Davis, P. M. Patterns in Electronic Journal Usage: Challenging the 
> Composition of Geographic Consortia [Analysis of usage by the 
> NorthEast Research Library Consortium]. College & Research Libraries 
> v. 63 no. 6 (November 2002) p. 484-97
> 
> Davis, P. M. The effect of the Web on undergraduate citation
> behavior: a 2000 update [analysis of undergraduate term papers in 
> microeconomics]. College & Research Libraries v. 63 no. 1 (January 
> 2002) p. 53-60
> 
> Davis, P. M., et. al., The effect of the Web on undergraduate citation 
> behavior 1996-1999 [analysis of undergraduate term papers in 
> microeconomics]. Journal of the American Society for Information 
> Science and Technology v. 52 no. 4 (February 15 2001) p. 309-14
> 
> _

I believe there are also various UK universities doing work in the area of
undergraduate plagiarism and the Internet e.g. Oxford Brookes
University:

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/4_resource/plagiarism.html

Also material on 'paper mills' and similar (which operate through the
Internet).

At Sussex, Diane Brewster is doing doctoral research on (university)
students'' perception of ownership of electronic sources (and how this
relates to their propensity to plagiarise), though I'm not sure if there are
any papers out there yet.

Louise Ferguson
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