I am feeling a little better now after reading all these posts about finding the article on ERIC. I was planning on doing this assignment last night ,but after about five minutes I realized that I had no clue how to actually find the article. On the bright side though this kind of proves the point that the article tries to make.
I think the argument Jenson is trying to make is that because students have quit going to the library some essential research skills have been lost. Even though it is the students who aren't going to the library it the teachers fault for not giving them assignments that require library research. Professors also need to make sure that students are famillar with the library and not just assume that because a student can create a killer myspace page that they must know to search an academic database. If college professors want good research then they are going to have to train their students how to do it and not assume that someone has already done it for them. They must also learn to coordinate with librarians who everyone seems to have forgotten about. I can't personally remember ever having a need to go the library in high school other than to get on the computer.
I agree with you in the sense that we need to be taught how to use the Library and things in it. But I think that most professors should not have to teach us how. I understand their anger when we do not know how to research correctly due to the ease of going to the Library and being able to take a class on how to do it if we want to. Not that I enjoy it when they get angry, or want to spend my free time going to another class to learn something that I do not really care about, just that I can see why they would be upset.
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