Googling is Not True Research.
Friday January 2, 2009
Sorry, students, but the Web is not an 8 billion page encyclopedia. And copy-pasting a web page link is not considered legitimate research. True scholars cringe at the millions of lazy students who think that "Googling" = true research. Before you can treat the Internet as a formal academic resource, you first need to respect that disciplined work and academic integrity must be part of your mousetime. Click here for a quick primer on doing proper Internet research.
I totaly agree, when I was student, a few years back, Internet could only account for 30% of our total research.
However we were allowed the use of Ebooks, you good argue this is a branch of the internet. However I found my most usefull research came from web site sources.
In my opinion it should be allowed but only for a percentage of research.
Great post Paul