Re: Weekly posting summary

"whisky-dave" <whisky-dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "H Duffy" <hester_duffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Erm, not universally, by any means; while I'm not a professor in the UK

>> or US sense, I mark students' assignments,a nd they get marked down if 
>> their references consist of a list of URLs.
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> I'm not sure what they do here but I wouldthink that method is bad 
> practice
> and open to abuse,

You'd be quite wrong; it's common practice, and not in any way wrong.
That's 
what Universities have libraries for, y'see.

 a buy or 'obtain' my book or I'll mark you down isn;t
> soemthing I would likoe to see.

We don't insist they _buy_ the books, just that they read them. And we
give 
them access to a library, so they can find books,and read them, free of 
cost.

H