>...and remember class, absolutely NO Wikipedia! ANYBODY on the Internet can edit information on Wikipedia, so it is important to NEVER get your information from there...NEVER. Use an educational resource for your paper instead.
>>53401996
>tfw professors have you do weekly Web researches to practice how to get accurate search results and wiki isn't a problem if the sources are legitimate
>>53401996
>write paper with information from wikipedia
>list as sources whatever sources the wilipedia article lists
a surprising number of instructors do not catch this.
No fucking shit. You use Wikipedia as a source aggregator. Follow the sources Wikipedia lists and use those.
>>53402123
i do this too, wikipedia is such an easy way to find good sources (as long as you check the sources0
>>53402123
This.
>>53401996
>class tells you not to use Wikipedia
>teaches you about some locked-off research portal you'll never touch ever again
Fucking hell high school does this.
>>53404923
>muh jstors
>>53404959
I come from a family of humanities professors, with my dad as an English professor. The sheer wankery over MLA (or APA, why do they need their own fucking system) citation I've been hammered with is one of the reasons I've abandoned that family tradition.
Not that a lot of STEM work would be much better, god fucking damn do I hate lab reports.
Its not like wikipedia can tell me specifics in nitrogen isotope analysis of human diet
>>53405040
APA is used more by linguists. MLA is used more by literature "researchers". Why do they need their own system?
>>53402123
There's nothing to catch. You're using sources that aren't wikipedia
>>53401996
You should never cite an encyclopaedia anyway.
Google scholar you idiots
>>53402123
I had a teacher straight up recommend this to the class.
>>53402162
>tfw sources are $100 books and paywalled journal articles
>>53408101
iktf
