Thursday, April 05, 2007
The College Term Paper?
Imagine a college student who is assigned to write a term paper. The student
Which ones do you think are acceptable research techniques? Slashdot debates the value of term papers in the era of StudentofFortune.com.
- discusses the topic with a group of people from the class over ice cream cones
- asks a librarian to help find information and answers
- posts a question on Yahoo! Answers or Amazon's Mechanical Turk to get a response
- follows wikipedia links to other web knowledge spaces
- hires a tutor to help with the assignment
Which ones do you think are acceptable research techniques? Slashdot debates the value of term papers in the era of StudentofFortune.com.
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