A little background on Marshall Poe. “Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian, writer, editor and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of non-fiction authors.”
Wikipedia is a very well known site to be an encyclopedia. Students constantly question why Wikipedia is a bad source and teachers will often fail students for using Wikipedia as a source for information, teachers try to have students understand that Wikipedia is not a credible sourse and state that Wikipedia does not follow academic rules of authership and are not reliable sources. Marshall Poe’s “The Hive” explains that Wikipedia is not a great source, how it was born, and its place within what he calls “the desire to
Wikipedia is a very well known site to be an encyclopedia. Students constantly question why Wikipedia is a bad source and teachers will often fail students for using Wikipedia as a source for information, teachers try to have students understand that Wikipedia is not a credible sourse and state that Wikipedia does not follow academic rules of authership and are not reliable sources. Marshall Poe’s “The Hive” explains that Wikipedia is not a great source, how it was born, and its place within what he calls “the desire to