Re: Weekly posting summary

whisky-dave wrote:
> "Troia" <troia.legata@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> whisky-dave wrote:
>>> "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.
>>> I'm not sure what they do here but I wouldthink that method is bad 
>>> practice
>>> and open to abuse, a buy or 'obtain' my book or I'll mark you down
isn;t
>>> soemthing I would likoe to see.
>> No, that isn't what it implies;  it's a matter of actually going to the

>> library and properly researching.
> 
> Do you really have to go to a library to do that ?
> I've got some old books at home on the planets, things were believed
about Mars
> 30 years ago that have since been disproved, such as how they formed.
> I'm sure sigmund wrote somethingn about having *** with your mother or
> somethign doesn;'t make it true just because it has appear in a book.

Would you give a student a good grade on a paper that made complete 
sense but was based on sources all <x> years old that had since been 
disproven?

For that matter, would you give a student a good grade on a paper about, 
say, evolution or the formation of the earth, who based their writing & 
conclusions on the Bible and other similar sources?

And don't academics generally look for sources that have been vetted in 
one way or another, which is generally impossible on the internet except 
for the sites which represent print publications and contain 
similarly-vetted articles?
> 
> 
>> One obvious problem with using the internet is that the sources are not

>> always authoritative, as anyone can pretty well publish anything they
want 
>> & have it appear credible.
> But isn;t the whole idea of furthering education is to think for
yourself
> rather than just proving someone elses point of view remmebr that one of
the
> best selling books in the world is the Bible how authoritive is that ?
> And most im****tant should w ebelieve it and therefor believ in heven and

> hell etc..
> Surely it's not such a bad thing to be able to think for yourself even
when 
> threratened
> with death for beign a heathen or justy discagreeing with your boss.
> 
> 
> 
Do you consider getting a C or D on a paper to be comparable to being 
"threatened with death"?

Or did we move out of the realm of academic research here at some point 
I missed?

And as for the newspaper re****ter(s) who cited something read on the 
internet and made a lead story of it without proper checking ... he 
certainly is properly threatened with "termination" as a result.


-- Troia