If you get students from any of my disciplines but especially from GEO 322, HDF 415, SWK 325, and JMSW 626, who need help finding articles for their research papers, please help them with the search strategy. Don't do the research for them and send the articles. All four of these are research methods classes and the whole point is for them to learn how to do research themselves.
For any class I rarely send people articles unless they have a very difficult topic and have already looked for possibilities.
Most of my students will have topics any of us can handle so feel free to work on those. If they want an appointment just have them shoot me an email.
Thanks very much.For any class I rarely send people articles unless they have a very difficult topic and have already looked for possibilities.
Most of my students will have topics any of us can handle so feel free to work on those. If they want an appointment just have them shoot me an email.
from Nancy
and from Mary - I agree that sending articles should be rare, but is appropriate when someone has a citation and is having difficulty getting to the full text for some reason that we can't figure out. In other cases, I agree with Nancy and my usual strategy is to give out links to databases and offer to stay online while people are searching, offering help with keywords and so forth.
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