- A version of Robin's peeve above. Students who give a source for some piece of common knowledge (typically citing their Introductory text as support for the claim that Freud was the father of psychoanalysis, or something like that), and then making all sorts of unsupported claims of the type that DO need some support (typically the kinds of things that people pick up from the media, rather than something that one would learn from taking psychology courses). These unsupported claims are usually prefaced with phrases like "In today's society...".
One thing I have done in a methods class that helps with this is to take one of my own short papers (e.g. a 3 page poster handout in APA format) and remove all the in-text references from it. Students then work in groups in the class to determine WHERE a reference needs to go -- what statements need a reference to support them?
-Chuck -- - Chuck Huff; http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/ - Department of Psychology, St. Olaf College
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