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Thanks for this, although I think pre-search would be a more catchy and apt name for it. On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 11:04, Gordon Asher <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi - and a grand new year to y'all > > Thought this seemed most relevant to omgoing chats, debates and dialogues > around use of sources, referencing etc.,? > > Katherine Firth - Wikipedia, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias and > “pre-research” > > *We all know academic writing “shouldn’t quote Wikipedia”*… but what we > often get wrong is *why* it’s not ‘the done thing’ > <https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/may/13/should-university-students-use-wikipedia> > . > > > The real reason isn’t that it’s not peer reviewed–after all, it’s okay to > quote primary texts, newspaper articles, memoirs and artistic reviews in my > line of research! It’s not even that it isn’t ‘edited’ in the most > traditional sense. It’s not even that it’s sometimes wrong (though it > sometimes is!). > > > *The real reason is that it’s part of a large stack of reading, > understanding and thinking that happens before you get down to the next > stage of research*. Wikipedia has it’s own take on this, which aligns > closely with what I’m going to say here! > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academic_use> > > > *I’m going to call this ‘pre-research’ and everyone does it.* If you > aren’t regularly doing pre-research, that’s usually because you aren’t > moving into new fields much, and so you did your pre-research years ago. > But most of us who teach need to do it regularly, and many of us who work > in interdisciplinary fields have to do it a lot. > > > What is pre-research? *Pre-research is the thing you do to get an idea of > the lay of the land, to know what the field is, before you jump in to a > deeper literature review. * > > > https://researchinsiders.blog/2019/01/03/wikipedia-dictionaries-encyclopaedias/ > > <https://researchinsiders.blog/2019/01/03/wikipedia-dictionaries-encyclopaedias/> > Wikipedia, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias and “pre-research” – Research > Degree Insiders > <https://researchinsiders.blog/2019/01/03/wikipedia-dictionaries-encyclopaedias/> > I teach research and writing skills at La Trobe University. I was part of > the team that founded, and still run, #thesisbootcamp with the Graduate > Students Association at the University of Melbourne. > researchinsiders.blog > > > Work like you don't need money > Love like you've never been hurt > and dance like no-one's watching > > > > "Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate > integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system > and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means > by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and > discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." Paulo > Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) > > > "Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world > enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from > that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and > the young, would be inevitable." Hannah Arendt (The Crisis of Education) > > "it is impossible to imagine a future unless we have located ourselves in > the present and its history; however, the reverse is also true in that we > cannot locate ourselves in the present and its history unless we imagine > the future and commit to creating it" (Anna Stetsenko, 2015). > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the LDHEN list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=LDHEN&A=1 > -- *Stephen Gow* *Academic Integrity Coordinator* *Secretary of the Standing Committee on Assessment * Academic Support Office Currently in D/K/116b - Derwent - former CELT offices 01904 321135 [log in to unmask] Gow, S. (2014). A cultural bridge for academic integrity? Mainland Chinese master’s graduates of UK institutions returning to China. *International Journal for Educational Integrity*, *10*(1). <http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/IJEI/article/view/935> [image: Image result for tef gold email banner york] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LDHEN list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=LDHEN&A=1