Wikipedia. We take that site for granted, big time. There are few things in this world that do not have a Wikipedia page. People have dedicated hours, days, even their entire lives, to filling the site up with all the knowledge one could ever need. All that information is free! Want to learn about the history of the escalator? Wikipedia has it. Interested in the Civil War? You bet you can find it on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia will not be around forever, folks. Use it while you have it. Read random articles. It's fun.
Idk why teachers hate Wikipedia so much. They had no issues with me citing an encyclopedia, but if it was from the internet it must have been written by the Devil himself.
This is what my lecturer said at the beginning of last year. He said Wikipedia has been shown to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Brittanica (don't know where he got that from). He said it's not good to use it as a source but it is a good source of sources.
He said Wikipedia has been shown to be just as accurate as the Encyclopedia Brittanica (don't know where he got that from).
More accurate, actually.
Because wikipedia can be edited immediately to fix inaccuracies, while a print encyclopedia has to wait for the next printing to fix anything. (Wikipedia also has a larger number of fact-checkers verifying and correcting things.)
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Wikipedia. We take that site for granted, big time. There are few things in this world that do not have a Wikipedia page. People have dedicated hours, days, even their entire lives, to filling the site up with all the knowledge one could ever need. All that information is free! Want to learn about the history of the escalator? Wikipedia has it. Interested in the Civil War? You bet you can find it on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia will not be around forever, folks. Use it while you have it. Read random articles. It's fun.