Boom. And Bloom?

[disturbed_kiwi]

Oh come ON, you what?!
Big Circle is the Cop Station, Small Circle is where I work.I've been thinking about the advice to not take on board the various financial burdens suggested to deal with Global Warming. The argument appears to be, it'll cause economic hardship and should thus be delayed or worked in very slowly

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[building7]

Martin Luther is likely rolling in his grave about carbon credits, they're nothing more than re-branded church indulgences.

Also, research advice is "use wikipedia and google"? That doesn't bode well.

[disturbed_kiwi]

If it was research, not too worried, clearly just not a techie, but this is to find out the form of the assignment. After two weeks of no contact.

MuthaF...

[evilgrin]

Don’t be so bloody minded, google knows everything. Oh except someone tore out the pages on the Chinese Democratic movement (see what I did there) , but that’s ok. Because I don’t care about those little yellow men, as long as they make the right skate shoes in the right size and color im fine with what ever goes on over there.

As for Wikipedia, it has extensive amounts of information on say …. Mike Patton (which is great) but not much on someone like say Paul Wolfowitz ....

Who is more important, Paul Wolfowitz or Mike Patton.

Actually don’t answer that.

[gioiaverdi]

Being fair, Wikipedia may be a crap source for academic research but it's usually a great launch pad for research with links to good sources.

Google is an index, and better than most indexes on the web.

I do agree that you shouldn't have to look at either of them to explain the form of an assignment, however, and that an extramural course should either contain all the required material, or set out how and where to find that required material within it.

[disturbed_kiwi]

Hey! Long time no see! How's things?

The Victoria Distance Learning set up is appalling compared to Massey's Extramural. I feel frustrated.

[gioiaverdi]

Things are ... well I'm chipping away at the last marking mountain of the year, which is inevitably Extramural Creative Writing.

I have been reading LJ, but posting little and commenting almost not at all.

[evilgrin]

Im an IT professional by trade and I love both google and wikipedia to bits, so dont get me wrong.

But when I was at uni we'd have been shot for pulling anything off the cuff from google or wikipedia.

[gioiaverdi]

*Grin* and I'd shoot you for it today - Wiki at least. My students are explicitly told that Wikipedia is academically unsound and unacceptable as a source.

BUT: Wiki is a good starting point - you go to Wiki's sources to do your real research, but it ususally can provide a number of good sources to explore.

Using Google... well that's about being able to search indexes effectively and analyse whether a source is credible or not(though Google Scholar does tend to return good results.)Certainly I wouldn't be expecting anything off the cuff, but I wouldn't shoot you for using a good tool - as long as you used it for the right job :-)

[building7]

Google is pretty lousy when it comes to anything beyond first-year trivia though. You're much better off using some of the special academic search engines and indexes at your local uni library, at least in my experience.