Avoiding the 'Paper Research' Vrs. 'Computer Research' Trap
Ben Fernandez · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2018
I try very hard now not to fall into the paper research vrs. computer research trap. If you have grey hair, like I do, trying to convince young students of the virtues of paper research is futile. No matter what I say, they see me as an old man who is stuck in the past, doing things the old way. So I have given up on extolling the virtues of paper and books. Just about everything that is in print can also be accessed using the computer. The real difference is in the mechanisms available to search for information. You can do a word or phrase search, you can do a search using a table of contents, or you can look up a topic in an index. When you do a word search, it is a computer that is compiling the search results for you. When you us a table of contents or an index (which you do on paper or on a computer), the search results are compiled by a human being.