When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia

James P. Purdy

60 citations0/0 files storedCollege Composition and Communication

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Wikis in Education and Collaboration Literacy, Media, and Education Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Abstract

Based on a study of observable changes author-users made to three Wikipedia articles, this article contends that Wikipedia supports notions of revision, collaboration, and authority that writing studies purports to value, while also extending our understanding of the production of knowledge in public spaces. It argues that Wikipedia asks us to reexamine our expectations for the stability of research materials and who should participate in public knowledge making.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 60 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2017Explaining dynamic interactions in wiki-based collaborative writing 2013Individual novices and collective experts: Collective scaffolding in wiki-based small group writing 2015Wikipedia's Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Epistemology, and Feminist Rhetorical (In)action 2019From Opportunities to Outcomes: The Wikipedia-Based Writing Assignment 2018How Not to be a Troll: Practicing Rhetorical Technofeminism in Online Comments 2013Interactivity and the Invisible: What Counts as Writing in the Age of Web 2.0 2013Wikis as discussion forums: exploring students’ contribution and their attention to form 2014Building academic literacy and research skills by contributing to Wikipedia: A case study at an Australian university

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.