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"><<a href="mailto:yuvipanda@gmail.com">yuvipanda@gmail.com</a>></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>
<<a href="mailto:parakara.ghoda@gmail.com">parakara.ghoda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> [...]<br>
<div class="im">> The figures might be misleading but they support my earlier theory<br>
> that wrt English, Indian students still prefer textbooks over Wiki ...<br>
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</div>If I had a rupee for every time I saw a 'paper' or 'presentation' from<br>
a student who had 'forgotten' to remove the [citation needed] and<br>
numbered inline references when they copy pasted from Wikipedia, WMF<br>
wouldn't be running a fund raiser :)<br>
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