User talk:Ashley.cochrane

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Hello, Ashley.cochrane, 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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Case studies
Hi Ashley, I have a note:

You need to have a secondary source when using a study. The reason for this is that studies are seen as primary sources for the research and claims held within, as they're written by the person(s) who conducted or was otherwise involved with the research, or the study is based on their experiences. You need a secondary or tertiary source that backs up the claims and, if mentioning a specific study, cites or heavily mentions the study.

Other than that the sentence is OK - just make sure that you have a very good citation for the claim of Costa Rica being frequently seen as the home of ecotourism. On a related note, I don't see this claim in the main article on ecotourism so you may want to leave off the claim of it being the home of ecotourism and instead have something along the lines of "Costa Rica is frequently cited as an example of ecotourism and in the 1990s was considered to be its 'poster child'." There's a source in Costa Rica's ecotourism article that backs this up that should be usable, although it would be good to try to find a more recent source. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:10, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

You have an overdue training assignment.
Please complete the assigned training modules. --Valerielopes (talk) 00:48, 8 November 2018 (UTC)