As I initially joined my group, it was clear to see what kind of individual we wanted to choose for our Wikipedia project, someone extremely distinguished. We, as a group, settled on one of the first female doctors of our nation, Eleanora Fleury. We settled on who should contribute to whichever aspect, from their early life, accomplishments, personal life among many more. My role mainly consisted of researching her legacy, how she was remembered/what she left behind. However, we generally helped each other along the way which each of our respective sections. The class was introduced to different search techniques early on, such as using more scholarly search engines like Google Scholar, BASE, and DOAJ among others, which made finding relevant
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The stigma held against Wikipedia, in my opinion, in collaboration with the previous point, is that it’s an easy solution for assignments. Without Wikipedia, a lot more student would be forced, for lack of a better word, to undertake assignments earlier, obliged to utilise more textbooks and journal articles to form more of their arguments, and essentially put more effort in, not to say every student uses Wikipedia for their work, or even most students, but there certainly is a procrastinating culture in university students with assignments being left to the last day seemingly commonplace. According to a survey/report done in 2010 on how college students use Wikipedia for their course-related research, found that “Students’ driving need for background context makes Wikipedia one of the predictable workarounds that many students use, especially during the first stages of their research process, students employed a complex information problem strategy in their research processes, reliant on a mix of information resources that were from scholarly sources and public Internet sites. Overall, college students use Wikipedia. But, they do so knowing its limitation. They use Wikipedia just as most of us do — because it is a quick way to get started and it has some, but not deep, credibility” (Head & Eisenberg,
The stigma held against Wikipedia, in my opinion, in collaboration with the previous point, is that it’s an easy solution for assignments. Without Wikipedia, a lot more student would be forced, for lack of a better word, to undertake assignments earlier, obliged to utilise more textbooks and journal articles to form more of their arguments, and essentially put more effort in, not to say every student uses Wikipedia for their work, or even most students, but there certainly is a procrastinating culture in university students with assignments being left to the last day seemingly commonplace. According to a survey/report done in 2010 on how college students use Wikipedia for their course-related research, found that “Students’ driving need for background context makes Wikipedia one of the predictable workarounds that many students use, especially during the first stages of their research process, students employed a complex information problem strategy in their research processes, reliant on a mix of information resources that were from scholarly sources and public Internet sites. Overall, college students use Wikipedia. But, they do so knowing its limitation. They use Wikipedia just as most of us do — because it is a quick way to get started and it has some, but not deep, credibility” (Head & Eisenberg,