| The ability to use many features in Microsoft Word, for instance, is certainly no guarantee a unique paper or creative poem will materialize. But when it comes to one kind of work they are required to do in college - namely, academic research - they can be inept. Dr. Curtis Bonk was recently a Senior Research Fellow with the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense. In 1996 there were 10,000 scholarly databases online; now they exceed 18,000. |