Friday, October 12, 2012

Using Wikipedia for research



CTEC 115  Fall 2012  Clark
How to perform research on the WEB
Topic: Censorship

Using Google I entered Wikipedia censorship and was surprised at how many pages came up.  There are 3 completely different entries that take you to different Wikipedia pages that give a definition of censorship.  Then there are several more pages that refer to Wiki, or censorship of Wiki, images for Wikipedia censorship and a variety of other Wiki entries that deal with some specific form of censorship.

I have taken the following ideas, keywords, citations and further research possibilities directly from the article and have not changed the text or format.  As this is strictly for research ideas and sources, I am not committing plagiarism as I am not trying to pass this information off as my own and I have included the citation where I got all of this information.

Keywords and ideas:
Additional keywords that I found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship  are suppression, self-censorship, rationale and implementation, censorship of military maps  
Other possible resources cited within this internet page:
"Self Censorship: How Often and Why". Pew Research Center.


When I entered the Wiki toolbox and clicked on “Cite this page” I was given this information:

Bibliographic details for "Censorship"

·         Page name: Censorship
·         Author: Wikipedia contributors
·         Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
·         Date of last revision: 6 October 2012 22:55 UTC
·         Date retrieved: 13 October 2012 01:21 UTC
·         Primary contributors: Revision history statistics
·         Page Version ID: 516387371

Along with a statement about how most educators do not want students to use Wiki as it is considered a “tertiary source”.

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