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June 10, 2005
Ironies of pedagogy and scholarship
So just as I'm reworking the chapter on evaluating sources, and I'm telling students that scholarly resources are more reliable than popular ones, the Native Speaker screws up my life by slapping me in the face with this information on just how unreliable science publications are.
Y'know, I think I'll just tell my handbook readers to go to Technorati, find out which blogs are read the most, and rely on them.
Posted by senioritis at June 10, 2005 11:24 AM
Comments
Well, it was certainly my intention to undercut your handbook. <evil laugh>Ha ha ha!</evil laugh>
But you've gotten your revenge--those readers will never go to my blog if they check Technorati for the most-read blogs... <weep>sniffle</weep>
Posted by: The former native speaker at June 10, 2005 12:48 PM
Trouble is, I'm not sure anyone would come here, either! But it looks like they'd be reading sources as reliable as the scientific peer-reviewed publications.
Posted by: senioritis at June 11, 2005 03:25 PM
So what are you going to do with this latest information? Could make things in your handbook a bit complicated, I would guess. (It's something I face too when I'm teaching Research Methods here...)
Posted by: The former native speaker at June 12, 2005 11:24 AM
It's a complication that needs to be there. Too many handbooks want to say that peer-reviewed sources are reliable; online sources are not; and that's all she wrote. I'm saying that every source has to be evaluated using multiple criteria.
Posted by: senioritis at June 12, 2005 01:48 PM