“Look, it’s my first Wikipedia article!” The attitude of university students to an authentic process genre writing task
“Look, it’s my first Wikipedia article!” The attitude of university students to an authentic process genre writing task

Summary/Abstract: In the past ten years, in the context of higher education Wikipedia has started to be seen as a friend, not a foe. Hence a number of courses involve a variety of Wikipedia-based tasks. The aim of the present article is to assess the suitability of Wikipedia-based authentic writing tasks from the students’ perspective. The qualitative content analysis of students’ learning journals has indicated that the process of writing is well supported by dividing the task into separate stages and providing feedback at every stage. Nevertheless, the teaching process should also involve raising learners’ genre awareness as the knowledge that students get while reading Wikipedia might not be sufficient for writing an article that would meet all the genre requirements.

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