On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:44:46 -0400 Emmett Denny said:
>I have found through my work at one college and one university that
>instructors unwittingly hinder electronic serial usage.  So often students
>come into the library and are shown electronic journals and their response
>at times is: "My teacher said I could not use any sources off the Internet.
>It has to be paper."

Teachers have to be taught that the Internet includes the content of
scholarly journals as well as web sites of dubious reliability, such
as this one: http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/mankato/mankato.html
(I mention that one in orientation classes.)  Teachers also need to be
taught to be more precise in their terminology.  Some who say not to
use the Internet probably do know about scholarly journals on the web.

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