How about reference works like Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica? Let's take Wikipedia first. A wiki is a community-edited document, one which anyone can add to or change. That's not exactly peer review, because the reviewers aren't necessarily people who have studied an area. Wikipedia might, though, give you ideas to follow up elsewhere, and that's fine. But I wouldn't use it as a scholarly source. Encyclopedia Britannica: It has a real editorial staff, and high quality articles. It is, however, a general encyclopedia, and so its purpose is to meet the needs of a general audience, not a specialist audience. For philosophy, for instance, it is a better idea to use either the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or one of the two major on-line encyclopedias of philosophy (which are, by the way, reviewed), theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and theInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (https://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/courses/scholarly1.htm_)
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Scholarly Resources
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How about reference works like Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica? Let's take Wikipedia first. A wiki is a community-edited document, one which anyone can add to or change. That's not exactly peer review, because the reviewers aren't necessarily people who have studied an area. Wikipedia might, though, give you ideas to follow up elsewhere, and that's fine. But I wouldn't use it as a scholarly source. Encyclopedia Britannica: It has a real editorial staff, and high quality articles. It is, however, a general encyclopedia, and so its purpose is to meet the needs of a general audience, not a specialist audience. For philosophy, for instance, it is a better idea to use either the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or one of the two major on-line encyclopedias of philosophy (which are, by the way, reviewed), theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and theInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (https://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/courses/scholarly1.htm_)
How about reference works like Wikipedia or Encyclopedia Britannica? Let's take Wikipedia first. A wiki is a community-edited document, one which anyone can add to or change. That's not exactly peer review, because the reviewers aren't necessarily people who have studied an area. Wikipedia might, though, give you ideas to follow up elsewhere, and that's fine. But I wouldn't use it as a scholarly source. Encyclopedia Britannica: It has a real editorial staff, and high quality articles. It is, however, a general encyclopedia, and so its purpose is to meet the needs of a general audience, not a specialist audience. For philosophy, for instance, it is a better idea to use either the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, or one of the two major on-line encyclopedias of philosophy (which are, by the way, reviewed), theStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and theInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (https://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/courses/scholarly1.htm_)
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