Friday, December 28, 2012

Humble Pie

Every time I feel haughty about studying at the first, largest, and (one of?) the best schools of my field, I need only to pick up a paper to grade to be reminded that getting into this school doesn't seem that hard.

Comments I had to make on graduate student papers today:

  • These [7 pages of] claims need to be backed by citations.
  • Wikipedia is not a reasonable substitute for peer reviewed literature.
  • If you are going to cite Wikipedia, at least put it in proper citation format.  You can't just have the URL.

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