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Deitering, Anne-Marie; Gronemyer, Kate – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2011
Undergraduate students are expected to find, evaluate, and use peer-reviewed or scholarly literature, but they rarely learn about the process of creating new knowledge or the roles the literature plays in the work of scholars. A desired outcome of undergraduate education is the understanding that knowledge is created, evolving, and contextual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
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Nutefall, Jennifer E.; Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Faculty and librarians agree on the qualities of a good research question. However, in an exploratory study, they differed on when students should develop their research question. While librarians stated that students should develop their question early, first-year writing faculty advocated for delaying the development of the research question.…
Descriptors: Student Research, Librarians, Library Instruction, College Faculty