Professional media

摘要

With this collection, editors McClure (writing & linguistics, Georgia Southern Univ.) and Purdy (English, Duquesne Univ.) cast student researchers in a positive light, based in part on their output: "NextGen students write more than perhaps any generation in history." They propose that writing teachers and librarians must meet students where they research, rethink what research is, and design assignments that capitalize on students' strengths. The evidence supporting this approach-contributed by writing instructors, librarians, and technical professionals-is great. Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Moore Howard found that NextGen undergraduate students have trouble paraphrasing and summarizing knowledge and rarely read beyond the first few pages of sources.