Twenty-One Genres and How to Write Them by Dethier Brock

Author:Dethier, Brock [Dethier, Brock]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2013-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Wiki

EXAMPLE: Wikipedia

I can’t explain on paper what a wiki is as well as a wiki can explain it on the web. On this subject, Wikipedia is authoritative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki.

EXAMPLE: Technical and Professional Writing Program Technology Wiki

Wikipedia is the largest and best known wiki and therefore as good a “sample” as you’ll find. Here’s a screen shot of a very different wiki created by Rebecca Walton for her students to research and write about the technology useful to technical and professional writers.

You can see the rest of the page, and in fact the entire wiki, at http://engl4410.wikispaces.com.

Spend a few minutes looking at the wiki. Did you learn anything? (I learned how to use Jing.) Can you imagine writing for such a wiki? Certainly there are experts who could write more authoritative definitions, but contributing to the wiki helps students learn and remember the concepts, and having all the definitions in one place is very convenient. It shows that you don’t have to be a world authority to contribute to a wiki; you just need to do enough research to be able to add to the conversation.

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