Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2010

Instructional Note: Meeting Student Writers Where They Are: Using Wikipedia to Teach Responsible Scholarship

Paula Patch

Abstract

Instead of penalizing students for using Wikipedia as their go-to research source, writing faculty should encourage students to critically analyze this online encyclopedia in order to teach them how to think critically about all texts, online and in print.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2010-03-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc201010233
CompPile
Open Access
Closed
Topics
Export
BibTeX RIS

Citation context

Cited by in this index (4)

  1. Purdy (2026)
    Wikipedia’s invitational approach to expertise
    Computers and Composition
  2. Vetter et al. (2024)
    Navigating the emotional terrain of Wikipedia writing: A feminist affective ana…
    Computers and Composition
  3. Vetter et al. (2019)
    From Opportunities to Outcomes: The Wikipedia-Based Writing Assignment
    Computers and Composition
  4. Vetter (2018)
    Teaching Wikipedia: Appalachian Rhetoric and the Encyclopedic Politics of Repre…
    College English

References (0)

No references on file for this article.

CrossRef global citation count: 17 View in citation network → Build reading path →