Cutting, Pasting, and Wasting Research Skills

As more and more students forsake library stacks for Google and Wikipedia, professors complain that a cut-and-paste mentality is replacing real research. Google searches should be “the beginning of the inquiry,” says one professor, “not the end of it.”

Some professors, fed up with their students’ reliance on Web-based research, have even begun demanding that students mention at least a couple of books in their papers’ footnotes. (The Tampa Tribune)