Editing and Collaboration

Writing is not a single, solitary process. It involves many different steps, including editing, to create something that is truly worthwhile. Without collaboration or editing, a writing sample might be incredibly flat or biased. There is no entity in our culture today that better embodies our modern concept of composition than Wikipedia. Wikipedia transcends tangible and cultural boundaries, making possible the ability that any person with internet access can edit articles. With the edits come different ideas, different points of view, and different biases. Of course, Wikipedia editors can flag articles for untrue statements, obvious bias/agenda and the need for lengthening- this does not diminish the fact that every person's choice of edit has a value.

 Featuring: Wikipedia
The Editing of Articles
Heath Chapel? More Like 'Cheap Schrapnel!'

In my coursework, I was required to work with about twenty other students to compose an entirely new wikipedia article. This was an interesting assignment, because after we decided on a topic (multimodality), I was assigned a specific sub-topic to write. After we compiled all of the subtopics into the shared wikipedia space, we collaborated with each other. Taking ownership of other people's work and not being afraid to request changes was vital in this act, and in the end my class composed a greatly research, unbiased, ever-changing article.
Wikipedia Analytical Reflection