As a very small part-time faculty in Pune University for M Sc Defence Studies students, I can tell you that virtually any and every assgnment has nothing worthwhile to find in the course textbooks but lots in Wikipedia.<br>
<br>My two bits.<br><br clear="all">Warm regards,<br><br>Ashwin Baindur<br>------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Yuvi Panda <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:yuvipanda@gmail.com">yuvipanda@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hopefully not starting a flame war here but...<br>
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan<br>
&lt;<a href="mailto:parakara.ghoda@gmail.com">parakara.ghoda@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; [...]<br>
<div class="im">&gt; The figures might be misleading but they support my earlier theory<br>
&gt; that wrt English, Indian students still prefer textbooks over Wiki ...<br>
<br>
</div>If I had a rupee for every time I saw a &#39;paper&#39; or &#39;presentation&#39; from<br>
a student who had &#39;forgotten&#39; to remove the [citation needed] and<br>
numbered inline references when they copy pasted from Wikipedia, WMF<br>
wouldn&#39;t be running a fund raiser :)<br>
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