Abstract-Since Wikipedia's founding in 2001, higher education has found it controversial as a teaching and learning resource. Many faculty members still ban students from using Wikipedia for their coursework. But a noticeable disparity exists between how academics in STEM (science, technology, engineering, & mathematics) and those in the humanities understand and engage Wikipedia as a teaching and learning resource. Wikipedia, as the scholarly research shows, is a far more credible source than generally acknowledged; and as many educators in STEM, and particularly the natural sciences, have also shown, Wikipedia can be a vital part of the undergraduate and graduate curricula. This study reviews the scholarship on Wikipedia; examines how Wikipedia can have a vital role in humanities education, including that of preparing students to write better and to do scholarly research; and argues why Wikipedia should be part of the humanities curricula globally.

It is generally accepted that Leonard Cohen's songwriting changed significantly in the early 1980s, due to Cohen's choice of a Casio synthesizer over a guitar as his instrument of composition. But this explanation begs fundamental questions of how we understand change and continuity in Cohen's work across nearly five decades and fourteen studio albums. This study draws upon text mining and data visualization results which map Cohen's lyrical vocabulary. Based on that data, it offers a reinterpretation of the Great Divide, the presumed departure in songwriting between Cohen's first six and last eight studio albums.

This study offers a quantitative approach to mapping out and examining Benjamin Franklin's writing of his memoirs. It does so by situating the memoirs in the context of Franklin's other and indeed primary writing activities: his participation in various correspondence networks. Both drawing upon and differing from previous scholarship, this study ascribes key aspects of the memoirs less to intentional design and literary craft, and more to Franklin's writing habits and cognitive style as manifested over his career. This study further argues for a reconsideration of how Jane Mecom and William Franklin influenced the memoirs.

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