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Originally Posted by Regorium
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.
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What's a "real source"? Almost any book/article can be found as a PDF online. Should the student hunt down the physical text instead? Google Scholar is an infinite better source than any high school or public library. Isn't that the most 'creative" use of sourcing we have available?