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How Students Find, Choose and Evaluate Literature for Seminar Papers

As the authors’ experience in lecturing shows students are ever more inclined to use the Internet as the main source of literature for seminar papers. In this research 326 students were tested in order to determine their habits in finding, choosing and evaluating various literature sources for seminar papers. Participants were tested via an online questionnaire devised for this purpose. Moreover, 144 actual first year students’ seminars have been analysed in order to determine their typical literature sources. Results show that majority of students (68%) use the Internet as their first literature source. Among nine listed sources, the highest credibility is given to scientific databases, and the lowest to blogs and forums. Also, among five listed criteria for choosing an Internet text, the highest rate was given to website type. But in actual seminar papers, scientific databases were rarely used, as opposed to anonymous and nonreviewed online texts

literature source, seminar papers

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