Some educators blame Wikipedia (and often use it as a curse word) for bad student writing. Maybe we should look at why Wikipedia is good and perhaps we should assign better papers.

Opening quote:

The education world has pursued new technology with an almost evangelical zeal and it is time to take a step back and give proper consideration of how we use it.

Too many students don’t use their own brains enough. We need to bring back the important values of research and analysis.
Lecturer Bans Students From Using Google And Wikipedia (from The Argus)


Some ideas about alternative assignments: I-Search papers, Multigenre papers, Reflective Annotated Bibliography.

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