Quote:
“Students shouldn’t be citing encyclopedias.”
Response:
I strongly agree with the above quote. Wikipedia and encyclopedias are just useful guides to find a particular source; they shouldn’t be used as the source themselves. I myself use Wikipedia when I am researching a particular subject. On certain subjects it’s kind of hard not to end up on the Wikipedia cite, it’s usually the first result found on google search. Through Wikipedia I get a nice overview of the subject I’m researching. Then in the sited sources is links to other websites that could be used as sources as well, some of them more credible than Wikipedia. So the tools are there and Wikipedia is just a point in the right direction.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources
Above is the Wikipedia’s criteria for citing sources on their site, which are the links I was talking about in my response.
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