[UA] Pop Culture Update

[Jess Nevins]

Bailey Watts wrote:

> >Well now, to be fair, it's not terribly realistic to expect college English
> >professors to be familiar with something as obscure and (to most people)
> >uninteresting as the intersection between fantastic fiction and occult
> >trivia.
> >
> >I knew a guy who used to put a fake book by "Edmund C. Scott" in every
> >bibliography when he was in high school.  If I recall correctly, he got
> >away with "Edith Wharton: Man or Myth?" but was called out on "Great
> >Recipies of the Bible."
> >
> >-G.
>
> It's gotten much worse with internet "sources" being okay to insert into
> papers and internet content being ridiculously easy to create.  I had one
> buddy who would put whatever bizzare information he liked on one of his web
> pages with impressive sounding domnains like worldcancerreasearch.com.  From
> corresponding with friends at other schools this sort of thing is apparently
> widespread.

Most professors I know and work with limit the number of 'Net sources
that their students are allowed to use for just his reason.

jess


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