March 7, 2003
Professor Promotes Student Use of Peer-Reviewed Papers
A report released last month shows that students in a course at Cornell University have generally used fewer scholarly materials in their library research in the past six years. But the professor who teaches the course reversed the trend by providing a few clear guidelines in term-paper assignments.
The report, "Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior," appears in the newest issue of Portal, a library journal. Philip M. Davis, a life-sciences librarian at Cornell and
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