Consequently the faculty has passed a resolution forbidding students from using the online interactive encyclopedia for academic assignments.
Students are also forbidden from listing Wikipedia in their bibliographies.
Good grief!
If the students are forbidden from using Wikipedia, why not just forbid them from using the Net altogether (no more online masters degrees) or any other bogus book in the library?
But they don't know which is true or not, so the students had better not use books either.
Don't use Wikipedia. Don't list it.
Nonsense.
I tell my online degree program students they can use Wikipedia. I tell them they can list it in their bibliographies...but, I also tell them the source does NOT give much credibility to their conclusions...because it is not an academic site and anybody can make changes to it.
How is it that these history profs can tell their students for online degree programs what NOT to read?
What do you think?
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