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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I would not accept Wikipedia as a source in a paper when I was teaching. My students were most annoyed with me when I required that at least half of their sources came from peer reviewed souorces and that they were limited to no more then 5 websites. It was kind of discouraging to have to plan a library day for Seniors in College because they have never been there and had no clue how to use the library.
I did allow them to use peer reviewed sources that could be found on the internet and in the library. So journal articles that they read online counted. Wikipedia did not count because it is not peer reviewed and it is far too easy to toss in crap information.
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Is EB peer-reviewed? Do college students use EB for reference? I thought it was more for grade school and casual reference. I went to college before the Internet (I mean... the Internet existed, I suppose... but we did not have access to it and anyway it wasn't what it is today!) and I don't think I ever used an encyclopedia as research or as a reference on a paper.
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