Integrated TPO 6

These set of materials, the reading passage and the lecture are discussing about online communal encyclopedias which can be edited by all users in contrast with the traditional printed encyclopedias. The reading passage opposes with the online encyclopedia and casts doubt on its accuracy by three reasons. While, in the lecture, professor advocates the online encyclopedia by rejecting all those reasons mentioned in the article.

First, according to the text, all contributors who mostly are lack of academic knowledge are able to change and edit the online encyclopedias, so they are less valuable sources. In the lecture, professors refutes the reason by declaring that none of the sources are perfect and lack of errors even the last printed encyclopedias. Furthermore, professor adds that in the printed ones, the errors are remained for decades without edition.

Second, in the reading passage, the original entry of the communal encyclopedias are more in danger of being fabricated by the hackers and vandals rather than the past paper versions. However, professor controverts this claim by explaining about some crucial formats which makes hard the online encyclopedias be changed. She also declares that other strategy might be edition of materials by special editors who review the precision of the communal encyclopedias frequently.

Finally, it is mentioned in the article that the communal encyclopedias focus too much on topics which seem to be trivial. While, professor repudiates with the reason by saying that space of Internet is limited and it should be notices what is important and what is not. Professors also refuses the reason and turns that drawback into one of the advantages of the communal encyclopedias by stating that individuals interest to get to know about great amount of topics, subjects, and articles.