In his blogpost, blogger and educator Andy Carvin relates a number of responses to the question of whether Wikipedia is good for education. The responses stem from an encounter Carvin had with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in which Wales suggested that educators were more open to Wikipedia than Carvin thought they might be. While Carvin presents a number of responses, he doesn’t do as much as he could to integrate these responses:

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/learning.now/2006/07/wikipedia_in_the_classr...

To help you practice synthesizing voices, I’ll point you toward these two articles. Give them a quick skim:

http://www.information-literacy.net/2008/02/teaching-with-wikipedia.html

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10789354

Your job today is to compose a short paper in which you position one of these stories in the context of a debate presented in Carvin’s story. So, thinking algebraically:

Carvin reports a debate between A and B. The debate revolves around X issues. C presents us with Y way of understanding the discrepancy between AX and BX.