On 2/28/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
To an extent they are right for the wrong reasons. Would the lecturers have told her not to use Britannica? What students should learn right away in a short course at the beginning of a university career is how to evaluate resources. Better still such a course should reiinforce things that are better learned much earlier. How much she can push the boundary may depend on her personality, and how open-minded the lecturers are.
I think I would have been shot if I had ever referred to Britannica. I had a whole university library available to me, and no excuse to skimp.