Article Review: Papermache Online Research

Summary

         Academia wants to use the internet for educational purposes because many bad or incorrect information is available. Los Angeles wants to start up Papermache.cc, Inc., a site that allows university students to share their graded paperwork and start discussions. It's founder, Benjamin Fenigsohn, has been working on this site for over a year. A funding campaign to raise money for the finishing touches 36 hours before his beta launch. He tries to make it "easier not to cheat than to cheat", since the reason why students cheat is because it's easier.

Main Concepts

• Academics Importance - Papermache.cc is made solely for the purposes of academics assistance. This network is being build because academics is important.
• Social Networks - Social networks is a popular way to connect with people from all around the world. Benjamin Fenigsohn realised that and thats why he created Papermache.cc. He wanted to make a medium where students all over the world can communicate to each other and help each other.
• Human Ingenuity - Benjamin Fenigsohn used human ingenuity and creativity to link education with entertainment (social networks). He made education more enjoyable and help more accessable

Strengths

• One of the author's strengths is that he focused on the problem and then introduced a solution for it. He didn't just state the news about Papermache right away. He made it interesting for the readers to read.
• By quoting, the author makes his point much more clearer. It's easier to understand the authors motives and perspective.
• I like how the author says "easier not to cheat than to cheat" since it got me thinking over it. It's true and simple but we tend to look over it at times.

Problems

• The author should make it shorter so that more people would be interested in it. Since some people dont have much time, they would want to read quickly and get the main ideas of the article. This article was of medium length but it could still be a bit shorter. The author could get to the point quicker.
• Some readers might have a problem with the vocabulary. Sometimes high vocabulary is used in the article. For me, I don't really have a problem with that since I can refer to the rest of the sentence for clues and I know almost all of it.

Questions

• How is Papermache more efficient that facebook or other social networks that are already made popular ? A discussion page can be made there instead.
• Will Papermache be successful; will it become popularly used by the targeted audience, university students?

Source:

Fenigsohn, Benjamin. "EdTech Startup Papermache Aims To Inspire Better Online Research." Edudemic. N.p., 13 Jan. 2013. Web. 14 Jan. 2013. <http://edudemic.com/2013/01/papermache-research-tool/>.