Thursday, September 13, 2007
20 References That Aren’t Wikipedia
lifehack.org: "I find Wikipedia to be a great starting point for online research, but you can’t really use it in your writing. Scholastici.us has 20 other suggestions that you could actually reference legitimately."
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bookmarked!
i knew most of these, but there's a few good ones on the list that i've never heard of
they forgot about http://scholar.google.com/
Ah! This is great! Specially with all of the talk in the news, on-line, and in class about how unreliable Wikipedia can be. I know the best sources for most things are books, but with the convenience of the web, having reliable sites for information is important to. I have just been looking at epodunk, and I really like it. Like bward, bookmarked!
This is something that has driven me crazy every time I am asked to write an essay. Sure, I use books but at some point I need new information. And Wikipedia is the place I go to, but just like with books its nice to have different references. Of course there is also this battle of Wikipedia as a real reference source. So its good to have different sites that will give different information.
I personally don't like wikipedia, a lot of people I know thing they are so smart because they get information off of wikipedia but it really isn't reliable. Sure if you want to look something up real quick you might get the possible answer your looking for but it's totally unreliable. I went and checked out http://scholar.google.com/ and I actually found information that I needed for my Susan Tsu project so this can definitely be helpful.
Wikipedia can be a great source for a lot of things like overviews and general information, but the lack of peer review that goes into the online publication does fill it with a lot of inaccuracies. however, now the convenience of the internet is blending with the accuracies of real books through sites like Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page). Not to mention that as people become more wary of the internet, fewer websites are acceptable for academic writing, but this site provides you with real literary sources.
This is incredibly helpful. Wikipedia is becoming a default source of information for our generation, which for obvious reasons, could be problematic. I've used jstor before, but it just doesn't match the breadth of information or the ease of u se that Wikipedia can provide.
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