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Written by Tricia Wood on 2025-01-22 at 21:42

As a professor, I have found it a fascinating journey to go from telling students "Don't use Wikipedia! It's not a place to do research," to telling students, "Start with Wikipedia! It's a good and reliable source, and an excellent example of collective knowledge-keeping."

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Written by Alistair K on 2025-01-23 at 19:31

@Pkbwood I have likened it to lit reviews, which they seem to get.

I also tell students that a vast number of academic articles are pretty much trash – half-literate pseudo-intellectual posturing, findings that are absolutely trite and inconsequential, pursued and printed only because they're "publishable", not because they're insightful or worthwhile.

The dogmatic worship of peer review is just the industry's self-aggrandising marketing – exploratory, critical reading is the only way through.

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