Week 5 Using Wikipedia for Academic Research-Video

" Don't use Wikipedia!"  That is a phrase you hear a lot in schools, especially schools that subscribe and pay for internet databases. Wikipedia is peer edited so it is not totally reliable. I do agree you should not cite Wikipedia, but you can use it to your advantage.  You can use it to identify terms and categories and maybe something you had not thought about before reading through Wikipedia about your topic.  Use it for what it is, a whole bunch of information added by people all over the world, some know what they are talking about and some do not.  Make sure you use credible sources in addition to the information gleaned from Wikipedia.