Summarizing the Conversation: Empowering Students to Write and Disseminate Scholarly Literature Reviews via Wikipedia-Editing Assignments

Summarizing the Conversation: Empowering Students to Write and Disseminate Scholarly Literature Reviews via Wikipedia-Editing Assignments

Rachel Miller, PhD is an associate professor of art history at California State University, Sacramento. When assigning art history research papers, a question from students that I always dread is “How many sources do I have to use?” I’ve tried out different responses, from a curt “As many as you need” to a lengthy explanation of the necessity of comprehensively understanding what has already been said about a topic before being able to make an o…