tpo 6

Both the reading and listening shed light on the communal online encyclopedia. The material presented by the author indicates some troubles of this cyclopedia including inaccurate, manipulated, and unworthy information. On the contrary, the speaker provided some evidence and examples that bear witnesses to what is presented in the reading should be refuted.
To commence, the author explains that since online cyclopedias were written by any internet users, their information is inaccurate in many cases, while the writers of traditional resources have an academic degree. Nevertheless, the lecture mentions that although online cyclopedias have some errors, the traditional printed version has some mistakes too. Indeed, the online encyclopedia can be edited easily, while traditional can convey wrong data for the long run.
In the second place, the writer asserts that the manipulation of online encyclopedia information by hackers and others makes them wrong. In contrast, the listening mentions two strategies to protecting text against vandals or hackers. Using a special format that hackers are not able to change it, is the first strategy, another strategy is, utilizing skilled editors that their job is correcting the online encyclopedia information.
In the end, the reading says that there is invaluable information in the online encyclopedia, while the material of traditional resources is completely worth it. On the contrary, the listening shows that the information of online resources is valuable, indeed, they have both academic text and interested data together as their unlimited space in compression to traditional version with limited space.