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1、TheUseofWikipediaindevelopingCollegeStudents’EnglishWriting Abstract:ThisarticleintroducesthepotentialuseofWikipediaindevelopingtheskillsofwritingforcollegeEnglishlearnersthroughtheprocessofcomposinganarticleforthisweb-basedencyclopediasite.InproducingatextforWikipedia,studentscangai
2、narealsenseofreader-awarenessandenjoythesatisfactionofseeingtheirworkpublishedonaglobalwebsite. Keywords:Wikipedia;CollegeEnglish;Writing 中圖分類號(hào):H319文獻(xiàn)標(biāo)識(shí)碼:A文章編號(hào):1672-1578(2013)05-0003-02 1ThepotentialuseofWikipediainCollegeEnglishwriting WhatisWikipedia?Thetermwikireferstoacollabor
3、ativeweb-basedspacethatcanbemodifiedbyanyuser.Oneofthemostwell-knownwebreferencesourceisWikipedia,theonlineencyclopediathatincludes262differentlanguageeditionsandover12millionarticles.Launchedin2001,Wikipediahasbecomeapopularreferencesourceforgeneralinformationonawiderangeoftopics.Art
4、idesinWikipediarangeinlengthfromoneortwosentencestomorethan10,000words.10 TheWikipediawebsitedescribesthecollaborativecomposingprocessasfollows:Visitorsdonotneedspecializedqualificationstocontribute.Wikipediasintentistohavearticlesthatcoverexistingknowledge,notcreatenewknowledge(orig
5、inalresearch).ThismeansthatpeopleofallagesandculturalandsocialbackgroundscanwriteWikipediaarticles.MostofthearticlescanbeeditedbyanyonewithaccesstotheInternet.Anyoneiswelcometoaddinformation,cross-references,orcitations,aslongastheydosowithinWikipedia’seditingpoliciesandtoanappropriat
6、estandard.(Wikipedia2009) DespiteWikipedia’spopularitywiththegeneralpublic,thesitehasreceivedasomewhatnegativereputationincertainacademiccircles,whereinstructorsoftencriticizestudentswhouseWikipediaasaprimaryresearchsourceorevenincorporatelargeamountsofWikipediatextintotheirownwritin
7、g.itisdifficulttodenytheusefulnessofthesiteasageneralreference.Evenmoreimportantly,WikipediaoffersanexcellentforumforstudentstobeginconfrontingthechallengesofEnglishwriting:research,citation,genericconventions,andstyle. ThisarticledescribesanapproachtointroducetheskillsofwritingforEn
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