Analyze and assess a Wikipedia passage to shed light on

Rhetorical Purpose

For a variety of reasons, students are often told to avoid Wikipedia for academic research. Yet Wikipedia tends to be a source most of us consult regularly in our personal lives, relying on it as a quick source of information on most subjects we can think of. Your rhetorical purpose in this paper will be to analyze and evaluate a Wikipedia entry of your choice to shed light on the role Wikipedia can play in academic research and writing. Because this is a more limited context for Wikipedia’s use, you should imagine your audience as undergraduate writers and those who care about their writing (e.g. composition instructors, composition scholars, writing center staff, librarians, etc.).

Avoid: announcing your thesis by saying “this essay will” using first person, unless telling a story about the topic (in other words, don’t say things like “I did research”) being biased about your topic summarizing a paragraph at the end of it or ending paragraphs repetitiously (e.g. “this also shows Wikipedia is not a good source”) summarizing in the conclusion starting with a generality

Assignment: Analyze and evaluate a Wikipedia entry to shed light on the role the encyclopedia can play in academic writing.

Audience: Undergraduate writers and those who care about their writing.

Sources: Any sources you need to develop an insightful analysis, including, at minimum, the Wikipedia entry (with its “talk” and “view history” pages), the sources it links to, and 2+ reliable sources on the same topic.

Your thesis will answer this question: if your teacher allows people to cite Wikipedia in their essays, is this specific page reliable enough to cite safely?
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