Cultivating Student Research and Study Skills in Web

|Cultivating student research and study skills in Web-based learning environments |

|Jennifer A Goett, Kenneth E Foote. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Oxford: Mar 2000. Vol. 24, Iss. 1; pg. 92, 8 pgs |

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The use of Web-based learning environments involves cultivating new types of study and research skills among students. Issues concerning plagiarism, quality of documents, and communicating effectively by email can be taught in actual classroom or virtual classroom settings.

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|ABSTRACT The use of Web-based learning environments involves cultivating new types of study and research skills among students. Students |

|must be able to find authoritative sources efficiently, evaluate the quality of documents thoroughly, and use and cite materials properly. |

|Students may also need guidance in what constitutes appropriate conduct in respect of the Internet and Web. They need to understand the |

|difference between citing a source and plagiarizing it, how to communicate effectively and courteously by email, and how copyright law |

|applies to resources they wish to use. These issues can be addressed in classroom discussion or in exercises woven into online learning |

|materials and assignments. |

|KEYWORDS Worldwide Web, Internet, study skills, netiquette. |

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