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FREDERICTON, May 30 /CNW/ - A student writing an essay for their teacher may be tempted to plagiarize or leave facts unchecked. A new study shows that if you ask that same student to write something that will be posted on Wikipedia, he or she suddenly ...

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Posted by Gregory Kohs on 05/31/2011, 11:30
I've searched the website for the 2011 Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and I have sent an e-mail to Dr. Gray. So far, there's no evidence that Gray's study exists, or any indication that she used a proper test/control methodology to draw these conclusions. If we're going to outsource to Wikipedia the actual classroom instruction on "how to write research", then I lament our student body's future. Case in point: http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-nati...study-of-donors