I-Notes Aren't so Bad
In the article, "Disappearing Ink", Todd Gitlin discusses StudentU.com, a website that sells lecture notes from over 60 different universities. These notes, taken by graduate students, very thoroughly summarize the lectures. This website and others similar to it are creating controversy in many universities. Gitlin, being an experienced professor, writes from experience saying that some students who had purchased the pre-written notes didn't attend class because they already had the lecture on paper, and those that did attend failed to take part in the discussion as they normally had. A variety of opinions have evolved on the subject, as one student, Blake Morrison, feels that these "canned" notes can not truly capture everything there is to be learned from a professor's presentation. Brook Borne, however, feels that these online notes would work well in addition to the discussion. Other students such as Rose Szybrowski and Ralph Tedson find no reason to......
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