Searching For Better Research Habits; Inside Higher Ed.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
September 2010
Abstract
Lisa Rose-Wiles, a science librarian at Seton Hall University, said it is naïve to think that by teaching students how to use search more responsibly, librarians and professors can prevent students from cutting corners. Of course librarians think cobbling together a good-enough paper with the first three full-text papers that turn up in a simple search is bad, but for students — particularly those aspiring to nonacademic careers — it might make perfect sense. “There’s no real way to convince students that that behavior doesn’t pay, especially when they’re trying to juggle six courses and a job and a whole life and all the rest,” Rose-Wiles said. "So unless we can demonstrate some measurable payoff to searching, students aren’t going to do it.”
Recommended Citation
Rose-Wiles, Lisa, "Searching For Better Research Habits; Inside Higher Ed." (2010). Library Publications. 151.
https://scholarship.shu.edu/lib_pub/151
