My approach has actually been to put it on the students to start papers
earlier, to direct them to ILL (Interlibrary loan) and to using the
internet (with all the pratfalls that it involves). I think I'm probably
somewhat lenient about how current the sources need to be; that is, I
expect that they'll have few articles from 1999, but as long as they have
made an effort to get the somewhat current state of knowledge, I give them
the benefit of the doubt.
David W.
At 10:41 AM 11/9/99 -0700, Martin J. Bourgeois wrote:
>Those of you who assign research papers: What do you do if you are at an
>institution that has a poor library, which causes students to have
>difficulty finding sources? Interlibrary loan services typically take too
>long if a paper is to be completed during the same semester it is assigned.
>Some possible solutions are: a) allow the use of secondary sources or b)
>allow students to cite papers after calling up the abstracts on Psychinfo
>(without seeing the paper itself). I don't want to teach students that this
>is an appropriate way to do research. How have others dealt with this
>problem?
>
>Marty Bourgeois
>University of Wyoming
>
>
David Wasieleski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA 31698
912-333-5930
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/dtwasieleski
"All my ideas are consistent; it is merely that
I cannot expound on all of them at the same time."
--Rousseau
