Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Wikipedia


Today in class we talked about writing research papers and we spent a lot of time talking about how websites like Wikipedia or Ask.com can be somewhat unreliable because any person could get on that page and put in false information or sabotage the information and links and if it is not a very important page, then no one might know about it. also we talked about how some pages are locked to the public like Mitt Romney's page and Barrack Obama's information pages are locked because someone could say something to influence the election in one sides favor. another thing we talked about was how there are key words in Wikipedia that are highlighted and these words could have a link attached to them that takes you to another page which describes the word.  Wikipedia is a great resource to find information on but I would always check to see if the information on the page is correct by checking another website or different source.


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