[Sigia-l] Research and the web

[Charles Hanson]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but here is an article from the Washington Post that attempts to measure the impact of web searching on undergraduate research. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9729-2002Jul15.html

"On the good side, Net thinkers are said to generate work quickly and make connections easily...But they also value information-gathering over deliberation, breadth over depth, and other people's arguments over their own."

--Charles