Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Freecycling - Reference Question of the Day

In a technical writing class (ENG 352) at NJIT students are required to revise an article in the Wikipedia that is poorly written or cursory in nature.  Yesterday a student approached me about finding such an article.  I showed him how to search for articles designated as stubs in the Wikipedia.  He later indicated that he would like to update the article about Freecycling.

Freecycling is when a person passes on, for free, an unwanted item to another person who needs that item.  Certainly this decreases the amount of waste that would go into the waste stream.  There is an old saying that "one man's trash is another man's treasure."

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