¶ … Library Resources vs. Wikipedia," authors Colon-Aguirre & Fleming-May (2012) illustrate that modern scholars are very often more likely to look for quick solutions to research issues, such as exploiting Wikipedia which is not peer reviewed and therefore has always been synonymous with a lack of truth or evidence. There are a myriad of reasons why students are so much more likely to access easy information like Wikipedia rather than going through the trouble of studying that campus's library resources and the researchers tried to ascertain some of the reasons directly responsible for the growing dependency on internet materials. In this study, twenty-one undergraduate students from a public university in the United States which is not named in the study for the sake of anonymity of the participants were questioned about their study and research practices. What started out as a statistical evaluation...

The intention of the original research, according to the research question originally posed was to examine Wikipedia specifically as an internet source, but the responses of the participants altered the eventual focus of the research.
Obviously, this is an interesting question to raise as all teachers and academicians whether it be at…