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Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool -- Physorg.com

Writing for Wikipedia "seems like a much larger stage, more of a challenge," than a term paper, said professor Jon Beasley-Murray, who teaches Latin American literature at the University of British Columbia in this western Canadian city...

As an experiment, last January Beasley-Murray promised his students a rare A+ grade if they got their projects for his literature course, called "Murder, Madness and Mayhem," accepted as a Wikipedia Featured Article." In May, three entries created by nine students in the course became the first student works to reach Wikipedia's top rank. Their articles, about the book "El Señor Presidente" by Nobel prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias, ran May 5 on Wikipedia's home page.

THE FILE ROOM

Was there a time or place in history in which censorship did not exist? Was there ever a group of human beings that was able to survive without censure? These questions precede and introduce The File Room, and locate censorship as a complex concept ingrained in our conscious/subconscious reality. Despite the impossible nature of attempting to define censorship, The File Room is a project that proposes to address it, providing a tool for discussing and coming to terms with cultural censorship.

Treasures in full: Shakespeare's plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Gutenberg's Bible -- The British Library

Examine every page of rare historic works; compare different editions side-by-side; choose standard or magnified view; read supporting material by our curators and other experts.

Some of the works you can access: Shakespeare in Quarto, Caxton's Chaucer, The Gutenberg Bible, The Magna Carta, Renaissance Festival Books, Malory's Arthurian manuscript.

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British Library - Showcases :: Landmarks in literature, art, history and printing

The British Library contains many millions of books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, patents, music scores, sound recordings, photographs and stamps. Choose a showcase to learn about some of the most important and beautiful books in the world or hear historic and unique sound recordings.