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Help:Student helpFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page is to

help students

of all ages with

using

Wikipedia.

Wikipedia can

be a great tool

for learning

and

researching

information.

However, as

with all

reference

works, not

everything in

Wikipedia is

accurate,

comprehensive,

or unbiased.Many of the

general rules of

thumb for

conducting

research apply

to Wikipedia,

including:

Always bewary of

any one

single

source (in

any medium web, print, television or radio), or of multiple works that derive from asingle source.

Where articles have references to external sources (whether online or not) read the

references and check whether they really do support what the article says.

In most academic institutions, major references to Wikipedia, along with most

encyclopedias, are unacceptable for a research paper.

As a student you are expected to submit your own work rather than directly copying material

from elsewhere. This is called plagiarism and is not tolerated in education and may be an

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infringement of copyright. Teachers and lecturers are able to detect plagiarism either directly

from the content, or by using special software to check if the submitted material is copied from

the internet.

To produce high quality work for school, college, or university information should be gleaned

from a wide variety of sources. With Wikipedia you can follow the links supplied in the

references or read the books which an article mentions. Often an ISBN for a book is given andclicking on it will let you check to see if your local library has a copy. It should be remembered

that the internet has only existed for a very short time compared to the history of printing and

publishing so there is a huge amount of material that is only available in undigitised book

form.

For students, especially at a tertiary level of education, Wikipedia should only be seen as an

entry into a new field of learning. The references supplied will open out into the vast resources

of the internet that we are now fortunate to have at our fingertips.

See also

Wikipedia:School and university projects

Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia, further information for college and university

students

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