Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.religion Subject: Re: scholarly article Message-ID: <2060@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 17:28:04 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2060 Posted: Fri Dec 21 17:28:04 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 08:21:04 EST References: <336@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 28 In article <336@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes: >I just came across this article in the Journal of the Association of >Registered Nurses, Doctors, and Technicians that I thought might be >interesting reading. It is written by Dr. Carl Frisken of the Whitlow >University Medical School, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. I >excerpt from this article here. > >"Often the use of excerpts from scholarly articles ... represents a >manifestation of extreme ... negative self-worth. Authors of such ... >[writings] ... tend not to have original thought patterns of their ... own. >They ... often fail to ... recognize or comprehend ... the meaning of the >... papers they cite in ... scholarly writing. More ... over, they >also ... fail to ... question anything ... put forth by the authors [of >the papers they cite]. They simply ... take at face ... value the >worth of the ... author's contentions without ... any form of independent... >verification or analysis. ... , ... expecting others [who read ... their >work] to do the ... same." Is this supposed to tell me why you quote so much of my articles, Rich? :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Charley Wingate umcp-cs!mangoe