Google is a search engine, not a source, so how can you cite it? Category error! Simply apply the same standards for references that you would apply to any other citation. Besides, how do you know whether a student found an American Psychologist article through Google, Google Scholar, PsychLit, or walking through the stacks?
At 8:01 AM -0600 1/14/08, Christopher D. Green wrote: > >From today's Inside Higher Ed: > >Some professors ><http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki>ban their >students from citing Wikipedia in papers. Tara Brabazon of the >University of Brighton, bars her students from using not only >Wikipedia, but Google as well, ><http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece>The > >Times of London reported. Google is "white bread for the mind," >Brabazon said. "Google offers easy answers to difficult questions. >But students do not know how to tell if they come from serious, >refereed work or are merely composed of shallow ideas, superficial >surfing and fleeting commitments," she said. "Google is filling, but >it does not necessarily offer nutritional content." > >Next they'll be requiring students to use quills and ink bottles too. :-) > >Chris > >-- >Christopher D p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px >Times New Roman} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px >Times New Roman; min-height: 18.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px >0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font: 16.0px Lucida Grande} > >Christopher D. Green >Department of Psychology >York University >Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 >Canada > > > >416-736-2100 ex. 66164 ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ><http://www.yorku.ca/christo/>http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > > > >"Part of respecting another person is taking the time to criticise >his or her views." > > - Melissa Lane, in a Guardian obituary for philosopher Peter Lipton > >================================= > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- The best argument against Intelligent Design is that fact that people believe in it. * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/ * --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
