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Lesson Plan: Citations on Wikipedia

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Estimated time length

45 minutes

Learning objectives

Students will gain, reinforce, understand, or learn:

• The importance of citations in expository writing
• Basic research skills (how to find credible sources)
• The knowledge of how a large online community works
• How to collaborate with others worldwide in an online community

Step-by-step process

1. Show students an article that is missing a citation and explain why it is important to have citations. (Make sure to explain that Wikipedia can be a credible source if it has citations).
2. Do a brief lecture informing students of what credible or non-credible sources look like, using this link.
3. Use CitationHunt to search for articles that need citations.
4. Add citation to article.

Resources and tools

• How to add references using the source editor (as opposed to VisualEditor)
• Wikipedia:Citations (background information about citations on Wikipedia and what they are used for)