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second child is due any day now. That makes it hard to find time to go to a library. One thing I use to find information is Wikipedia. Before you say it, I know that people can just write anything on there. I use it to find the topic and go to the link where they found their sources for what they wrote. A lot of it will come from credible journals and articles. So, don’t use Wikipedia to quote just use it to find their sources of information. If they don’t have

Academic Dishonesty Rhett Anderson EDUC-6380-70Y July 15th, 2014 Abstract Academic Dishonesty is defined by Wikipedia as, "Any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise." It is becoming a large epidemic that is hurting both students and teachers. With the high pressure that our society puts on success is making students justify cheating in order to get ahead. There any many forms of cheating that occur in a school setting. In this paper we are going to focus on the

Emily Blake 7706716 CMN2160 B Theories of the Media The username I have created for the purpose of this assignment is EmilyBlake1296. As my contribution to the world of Wikipedia, I have added information on the Wikipedia page for the International Women’s Fraternity Delta Delta Delta. I have added information to topics like Philanthropy, Leadership, Significant Insignia and Hazing. I have provided a copy of what I have written below. I have also made minor corrections to spelling and grammar

Lyu Meizhen Dr. Mina English 108 6 November 2014 Social Media Marketing According to Wikipedia, Social media marketing is a term which describes “the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites (Wikipedia).” These kinds of promoting tactics are getting more and more popular and effective in this technology driven world, it is easier for a business company to determine where the potential customers are and easily attract their eyes through social media. It also saves

1. The article contains a discussion of the use of Wikipedia as a source for journalists and students. The author's thesis statement is listed in the header: "While the line 'according to Wikipedia' pops up occasionally in news stories, it's relatively rare to see the user-created online encyclopedia cited as a source. But some journalists find it very valuable as a road map to troves of valuable information." The author conducts interviews with a number of media editors, most of whom support

A Wikipedia business page is an ideal way to add to your company's online presence and increase its credibility in the eyes of consumers. People frequently research companies that they are considering making a purchase from, therefore, you want them to see that you operate a reliable company that has nothing to hide. While you cannot promote your business on Wikipedia, having a non-biased Wikipedia page is a tool used by top marketers and public relations professionals for exposure. Entrepreneurs

Both of the academics questioned for this article agree that it is easy to spot essays that are over-reliant on Wikipedia, and that direct citation of the site was always unacceptable. While following the footnotes in Wikipedia pages is a way to access stronger content, they say a critical mind should be applied to each source individually. Dr Austen-Baker says that some articles on Wikipedia can be "exotically inaccurate", and that undergraduates must familiarise themselves with the equivalent, and

The non-profit Wikipedia website, www.wikipedia.com, is very popular among internet uses when it comes to looking up information on a topic that the user may not know much about. In fact an article by Steve Tobak, published September 2, 2015 on www.foxbusiness.com stated that Wikipedia is the 7th most popular website in the world. The website started in 2001 and was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. There is a vast amount of information to be found on the Wikipedia website. The website

I would like examine Otto von Bismarck on Wikipedia and Britannica to see how the information entry differs from each other. After going through the information about Bismarck, I noted that most of the information provided on Wikipedia is useful but couldn’t be used as a trusted source for scholarly paper. The information on both Wikipedia and Britannica matches but sources for the information on Wikipedia doesn’t seems to be credible. The reason why the information cannot be trusted is because

Wikipedia is more often than not viewed as an unreliable source when doing research for any particular topic and the reason is the fact that normal people are able to edit any Wikipedia post. It’s so easy for people use Wikipedia as a source simply because it is the first source that comes up when doing a search on a topic and people just assume that everything is correct when that might not be the case. I will be looking at a Wikipedia post about Julius Caesar and seeing the changes that have been