The issue of “knowing what’s good from bad” on the web is a particularly difficult one. I’m not sure if the Q&A was capture well enough as I attempted to answer this.

Much like how Google’s PageRank mechanism works, one of my suggestions was for the student to see how often his chosen reference has been cited before. Granted it’s not an entirely simple thing to do, but it ’s a benchmark.

How would you go about recommending a workflow?

Good luck on your “Research for the 21st Century” initiative!