Wikipedia: the go to source for winning a
bet.
Wikipedia may not always have the most
reliable sources only because any person can write and type up their own
information to any “stub”. Though, when
writing a Wikipedia article there are specific guidelines to follow. It must of
reliable sources such as peer-reviewed articles and the sources must be
traceable.
For my assignment, I chose to add to the
“Folk Linguistics stub”. I have taken linguistics classes before and it is an
area I have an interest in, though it is not my main interest I figured I would
find some research done on it. I found information about folk linguistics using
the ualberta libraries website. The
information I found was all from research articles that explained the origin
and how about folk linguistics came to be what it is today,which is very
similar to language ideology. Folk
linguistics is a form of speech with an underlying belief that has existed
since the beginning of time.
In making this Wikipedia article, I tried to use some the Wikipedia formatting. There are some symbols that are straightforward but some of them were confusing and I didn’t quite know how to double up some of the symbols. Though in the process of writing this article I learnt that I will start to think more critically about Wkis and question their content more often.
In making this Wikipedia article, I tried to use some the Wikipedia formatting. There are some symbols that are straightforward but some of them were confusing and I didn’t quite know how to double up some of the symbols. Though in the process of writing this article I learnt that I will start to think more critically about Wkis and question their content more often.
Here is my print screen photos of my editing to the wiki stub:
Folk Linguitics Wikipedia page - editing. From Laura Scot's personal collection, March 23, 2012.
Internal link: http://jessiebales204.blogspot.ca/
As this person's blog mentions, I as well didn't realize how many stubs were out there and incomplete. Finding information via the internet may be easy as typing it into google or wikipedia but it may not be the most reliable and be credentially accurate. Important information may be missing to fully understand a concept.
I did not actually publish my article, I just did the preview of my article.
