Hi - thought I would add another 2 cents to the topic,
a lot of schools do dock students for using a wiki, any wiki...It is not a
primary or documented source. But as long as the students use more then a wiki
as a source, most profs will let them get by with it. Even the founder of
Wikipedia
Actually, what I like about Wikipedia is their art collection:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Yorck_Project
Full of nice pictures of people wearing clothes!
Janet
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Someone used Wikipedia as a source in a message, so I thought I would add my
two cents...
Wikipedia is not really a good source. If a college student quotes
Wikipedia, they lose points. Wikipedia can be edited or information added
by anyone. The website started as a copy of a 1910s?
Greetings--
Penny wrote:
Someone used Wikipedia as a source in a message, so I thought I would
add my two cents...
Wikipedia is not really a good source. If a college student quotes
Wikipedia, they lose points. Wikipedia can be edited or information
added by anyone. The website started
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Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:43 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Wikipedia as a source
Someone used Wikipedia as a source in a message, so I thought I would add
my two cents...
Wikipedia is not really a good source. If a college student quotes
Wikipedia, they lose points. Wikipedia can
Susan Carroll-Clark wrote:
Wikipedia is not really a good source. If a college student quotes
Wikipedia, they lose points. Wikipedia can be edited or information
added by anyone. The website started as a copy of a 1910s?
encyclopedia that was put online. The owner of the site, decided to
Susan Carroll-Clark wrote:
Wikipedia is not really a good source. If a college student quotes
Wikipedia, they lose points. Wikipedia can be edited or information
added by anyone. The website started as a copy of a 1910s?
encyclopedia that was put online. The owner of the site,
At 11:15 PM -0400 9/29/06, Guenievre de Monmarche wrote:
Wikipedia's not a good source for hard data. But it IS a good source for
random facts. IE just surfing around from one eye-catching topic to another
to find things that look like they WILL be interesting.
Make that random assertions
