ERIC Number: EJ913996
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Jan
Pages: 15
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Beyond Peer-Reviewed Articles: Using Blogs to Enrich Students' Understanding of Scholarly Work
Deitering, Anne-Marie; Gronemyer, Kate
portal: Libraries and the Academy, v11 n1 p489-503 Jan 2011
Undergraduate students are expected to find, evaluate, and use peer-reviewed or scholarly literature, but they rarely learn about the process of creating new knowledge or the roles the literature plays in the work of scholars. A desired outcome of undergraduate education is the understanding that knowledge is created, evolving, and contextual rather than discovered, static, and universal. There is some evidence that explicit instruction can facilitate this understanding. As scholars use the participatory Web to talk about the work that they do, they also create places where students can look in on the knowledge creation process. (Contains 34 notes.)
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Scholarship, Peer Evaluation, Periodicals, Concept Formation, Knowledge Level, Epistemology, Reflection, Research Projects, Assignments, Information Literacy
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