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