Re: Weekly posting summary

"H Duffy" <hester_duffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "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,
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> You'd be quite wrong; it's common practice, and not in any way wrong. 
> That's what Universities have libraries for, y'see.
They also have cafeterias, prisons have libraries too,   so what,


> a buy or 'obtain' my book or I'll mark you down isn;t
>> soemthing I would likoe to see.
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> We don't insist they _buy_ the books, just that they read them.
And how will they read them if the don't buy them ?

> And we give them access to a library, so they can find books,and read 
> them, free of cost.
we have classses of 100 or more how many books would they library have to
 buy from the publishers, and whaty if the book should only be availible
in
hard back at £80 a copy ?
I've known our library to be short enough of fund not to be able to buy 
enough
books for our courses and that's in plain paperback form.

Why shouldn't students have the right to reference on-line publications ?