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28 Sep 11
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16 Apr 10
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16 Jan 08
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As I suggested earlier, it has become popular to use the web as a shorthand way of dismissing a whole category of resources: if its on the web, it isn't appropriate for citation in a university paper.
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I'm accepting, for the moment, the assumption that acceptable knowledge resides primarily in peer-reviewed journals and in books.)
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As for Wikipedia, I would agree that, for a variety of reasons, it is probably not a proper source for an academic work. Many professors would not accept an encyclopedia entry as a citation in a paper, regardless of which encyclopedia it came from. Some might accept it as a source of a definition, perhaps, but in those cases, it would have to be an encyclopedia recognized in that field. Wikipedia, in a general sense, wouldn't make the grade.
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Teaching them an oversimplified model for assessing information resources, while potentially effective at getting them to change their habits, does little to develop the skills they need to be successful in their studies and their future careers
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