Guidelines for Online Sources in My Courses

Guidelines for Online Sources in My Courses

• A very simple solution to this problem would simply be to forbid the use of Internet resources in college-level research papers. This would definitely end the problem, because you can’t misuse a resource that you aren’t allowed to use in the first place. Yet in many cases, the Internet does have valuable resources for academic papers; the remainder of my web site is full of links to potentially valuable Internet research resources. In particular, current or recent events are likely to be covered in a much more timely fashion by Internet newspapers or by the web sites of countries or organizations involved with a certain ongoing problem than is possible with books or journals in the library; there is simply too long a lead time in the publication process for us to expect the library to have information on events in the past few months.

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