Ml206873

Proposed deletion of Is homework beneficial to students

The article Is homework beneficial to students has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Personal essay, on a topic already covered at Homework#Academic_performance

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• Hi - I received a notice of this. Upon looking at the article, I agree with the nominator's argument. While this would make a good essay for class, it doesn't fit Wikipedia's guidelines for articles as it's written as a persuasive essay, imploring the reader to examine the question and come to the conclusion that you have come to by the essay's end. With Wikipedia we can only summarize what has already been written by others and the topic should not be in the form of a question. On a side note, Animalparty, this may be a good redirect to Homework#Effect since this does seem like it may be a viable search term, since people do occasionally search by question. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:34, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, Ml206873, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:31, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Notes on content

Hi, I edited the content you added to homework to summarize the content a bit more succinctly and to also remove the information about the study. You should avoid studies in general when it comes to Wikipedia. The reasons for this are as follows:

1. Studies are primary sources for the research findings and information. In order to show that the information is good it would have to be covered in multiple independent and reliable sources and also get verified by it getting repeated in similar or identical settings. Basically by the time it would be usable it would already be covered in a secondary, independent source that would make using the original study unnecessary. It's actually pretty rare that a study gets enough coverage to warrant highlighting the study.
2. There's a level of original research in the choosing of a study, as someone could question why someone chose one study over another that covered the same topic and potentially gave different results. It's ultimately the decision of the person looking up sourcing as to what study is chosen, which makes it original research, especially if the study has never been covered or hasn't been covered heavily enough to warrant mention.
3. Studies typically only cover a slim portion of a group or society, which is typically done out of necessity since it would be too difficult and/or expensive to survey all persons or organizations in a given area, then shape that information in a way that would make sense. What makes this an issue on here is that what is applicable to one area (for instance, the University of Virginia) may not be applicable to a high school or university elsewhere in the United States or world.

I hope that this explains why I removed the content about the study! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 01:00, 12 December 2017 (UTC)