Re: Weekly posting summary

"whisky-dave" <whisky-dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "H Duffy" <hester_duffy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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,

So students are not in any way compelled to buy the books they need; 
therefore, your theory that it is bad practice to insist on them using 
actual books, because it means buying things, is clearly faulty. We make 
them read books, and we provide, free of charge, the books they need to 
read.

>
>
>> 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 how will they read them if the don't buy them ?

Read this slowly, Dave; it's a very very complicated theory, and one
you've 
probably never come across before, certainly not in this post.

They

Get

Them

From

The

Library.

Do you know what a library is, Dave? It's a place where there are lots of 
books, and people can go and read them, or borrow them to read them at
home, 
without actually buying them.

Do you need an explanation of what a book is too?

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>> 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 ?

They don't necessarily all need to read the _same_ book; quite often, the 
information they need is provided in lots of different books.

> 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
?

If they're proper, peer-reviewed publications, they can do so. On the
other 
hand, if they're being lazy and just looking up a bunch of web sites which

haven't been peer-reviewed, they're probably getting inaccurate 
informat8ion, so that's not useful for them, and therefore, they're not 
allowed to do that.

H