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stealthdawg t1_ja8z01h wrote

You're not wrong...

they teach this in like 9th grade

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44problems t1_ja92jh6 wrote

I'm old enough to remember when teachers said this about print encyclopedias. Look at the works cited, don't cite the article.

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megamagex t1_ja90hao wrote

Glad teachers have caught on. When I was in school they just blanket banned Wikipedia and had no idea there even were sources in the articles. Granted that was 20 years ago lol

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stealthdawg t1_ja95mio wrote

I mean, same thing now as a 'blanket ban.'

Wikipedia isn't a valid source, but you didn't need permission to follow the citations

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MinnieShoof t1_jac21w9 wrote

... nobody's "caught on." Wikipedia is still not valid. If you have to be told that going to the sources that the wiki cites is a completely different kettle... well, I'd hate to read one of your papers.

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Deezus1229 t1_jaa12o6 wrote

>they teach this in like 9th grade

Correction, they're SUPPOSED to teach this in 9th grade. However, I found out the hard way when I cited Wikipedia in my first college-level essay and my professor failed that entire paper because of it.

I took honors and AP-level English in high school, not once did they ever dock points or correct us for citing Wikipedia. Some schools just suck.

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codenamendgo OP t1_jaacqau wrote

As some people also stated, I definitely wasn't taught this in 9th grade. But I mean it's been a few years since high school. Even my community college didn't really teach about using scholarly sources.

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