Faced with the temptation of taking an easier route to source gathering, students are going directly to the internet or AI without sound methods of searching or evaluating what they find. In the process, they are bypassing valuable artifacts in databases and compromising their results. Infused with info from questionable outlets or at least of suspect validity, these products fail to impress and reveal to some extent how we have failed to instruct. It’s time to re-direct students to a set of proven research steps producing final projects they will be proud to put their name on and we can say represent best practices.