Mrs.Crawdad wrote:
Dragon wrote:Mrs.Crawdad wrote:And that is why my students are not allowed to use wikipedia as a source for ANYTHING that they have to research for school. While the information is probably good about 90% of the time, there's that other 10% that no one bothers to check.
you are an evil teacher.
Why? For making my students do more than the bare minimum? For teaching them that there are sources other than Wikipedia? I suppose if that is your definition of evil, than yes, I am.
I was raised around computers, and therefore, the internet. Thus, Wikipedia is my numero uno source of information for, among other things, school papers. Write the paper with a wikipedia tab open. Use some common sense to decide what info sounds fishy and what's legit. Paper's done. Do I need to explore a part of the topic in greater detail? Open up one of the cited sources and internet(verb) for a while. Crack open easybib and start middle-clicking the sources at the bottom of the article. It's got 93% written all over it.
Minimum of 5 sources? I've got 12 in alphabetical order and orgasmic formatting.
BAM!Name and class in the upper-right hand corner? alt-v-h (header)so that the info doesn't eat a quarter of the page like EVERYONE ELSE'S FUCKING PAPER.
BAM!Demonstrated knowledge of the topic? In spades, thanks to Wikipedia.
BAM!
THE TRIPLEBAM!graduated high school with a 2.38. but that shit would be a 3.2 in CA.
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