Department of Computer Science and Engineering CSE 92
University of California at San Diego Spring 2007

Assignment 1

Due at the start of class on Tuesday April 10.

(1) (About 300 words.)  Read and think about the Wikipedia policies on Content and style, and on Legal and copyright.  Explain which of these policies you think are most important.  Compare these principles to the principles you have been taught before for good nonfiction writing, including about plagiarism.  Do you think any significant principles are missing from the Wikipedia guidelines?  

(2) (About 300 words also.)  The Wikipedia policies do not actually give guidelines for good writing style, while the Wikipedia Manual of Style mostly covers very specific low-level issue.  So, state and explain guidelines for good style that are relatively high-level and that you consider important.