The Wikipedia assignment helped me learn a lot more about my topic: The Temple of Music. Although I wasn’t able to come up with any book bibliographies due to lack of information on the Temple (being burnt down very recently after being built), I had to settle with just a limited number of resources. However, from those resources, I was surprised to find so much information. The assignment helped me to understand more about the research process and after writing the paper, seeing how the information comes together. I’m not sure why the research assignment had to be on wikipedia though. I think it would’ve been better using microsoft word and typing out a paper as boring as it may be.
Although I wish I could’ve gotten some more feedback on the article, the only feedback I got was to have the images removed. I think the images were removed because I simply copied and pasted them onto the wikipedia with the link under it. I hoped more people could’ve wrote me some feedback or edited it because I would’ve liked to see the process more in depth. For example, would they have to get my permission to edit my words or do they automatically have the right to cut words or even full sentences.
Although it was dreadful trying to figure everything on Wikipedia out, I learned a lot about posting articles and somewhat of the editing process. Overall, it was definately a new venture with wikipedia that was somewhat enjoyable while being dreadful at the same time. Although I still prefer the classic method of writing papers, this was definately a new experience. In this class, overall the writing assignments were good because it saved money and time for the students. I thank Professor Boggs for that. The movies were definately fun watching and you can’t beat short lectures anywhere. Great class!
