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Originally Posted by MattyC
How are teacher's deficient in doing this? Each one of them would have had to do it multiple times throughout their own schooling. And I haven't been through an Education degree, but I would presume there is some instruction on proper sourcing and checking such sources.
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It's not about properly sourcing. nik- said "sources used and required creativity levels are present in the student's work."
My assertion is that teachers are deficient in evaluating how appropriate and creative the usage of sources are, and thus, I'd rather them force students to use "real sources", which will force creative usage of the source. In general, published sources are not as specific as googling a question - "themes and motifs in book X" is generally not something you would find published, but you'd find hundreds of websites with that material.