NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two years ago, Tennessee State University junior Kristi Roberts wanted to cite a tweet in a paper she was writing about the poem, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." It may not ...

A free online encyclopedia that has millions of articles in different languages couldn't be a bad thing for students - could it? Wikipedia.org, a free online encyclopedia, has been a topic of ...

RELX owns Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house with journals like Cell and Science. Criticism of high subscription fees for academic journal access and copyright issues have strained ...

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind ...

When San Jose State University student Kyle Brady published the source code of his completed homework assignments after finishing a computer science class, his professor vigorously objected. The ...

“If I ever see Wikipedia as one of your sources, I will take off 30 points from your paper,” said my history teacher to one of my classmates who cited Wikipedia as one of their sources for a research ...

Good writing often follows good research. Research includes locating quality sources, understanding the difference between primary and secondary sources, and using these materials to support analysis ...

We tell them, but do we show them how? I’m talking about the academic sources we implore undergraduates to consult. We toss out the word "journal" so often that we could fill one with our own ...

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