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Take that, Wikipedia

Wikipedia gets a bad rap in academia because of the nature of a wiki allows for any commoner editing an article and potentially resulting in thinning down the article of interest you are reading.

The instructor in this news story used Wikipedia in a whole different way by making an assignment for her students to contribute articles to Wikipedia; thereby having the experience of not just writing for their professor but for the whole world.

Posted by Jeffrey on November 1st, 2007 No Comments