Thanks Annette and Rod for responding. What I have in mind is some
sort of information sheet that describes some of the responsibilities
associated with doing research (e.g., responsible research conduct,
commitment to the project and to the process of scientific discovery),
and that this type of academic experience usually demands a high degree
of academic commitment in terms of time and intellect that can go beyond
a traditional academic experience (e.g., a paper). I guess my
interest in wanting to create such a contract lies, in part, in what I
perceive to be an attitude held by some students that runs something like
"research is one more of those hoops that I need to jump through in
order to be sufficiently competitive and get into graduate
school". I have had one too many incidents of students who,
smack in the middle of a project, either drop out or slow their work
activity to a crawl right until the day before a conference or the end of
the semester. In other words, some students appear to treat the
carrying out of a research project like they might treat a course term
paper; something that just has to be done. Frankly, I despise that
attitude. A couple of years ago, I had to retract an accepted
submission to EPA because the student never completed a jointly authored
paper, in spite of assurances by her that she would write the
paper.
While I accept the attitude that research experience is essential to be a
competitive applicant to graduate school, I do not want that attitude to
serve as the primary motive for those students who get involved in my own
work.
Miguel
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