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Kollmeier, Harold H.; Staudt, Kathleen Henderson – 1984
A freshman humanities course in reading and research was used by three English instructors to investigate the appropriateness of having students use an online database as a research tool. The results show that the acquisition of basic online database search skills is not qualitatively different from that of more traditional research skills.…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Databases, Higher Education