Friday, July 30, 2010

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION: SURVEY FIND RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT HANDOUTS GIVE STUDENTS LITTLE GUIDANCE

Librarians involved with providing instruction for undergraduate courses know better than anyone that it can be a mistake to take students' skill-sets for granted.

A recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education emphasizes this point in its discussion of how professors often do not explain fully enough the tasks demanded by the research process, leading to papers that "...do little more than meet formulaic standards."

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