James P. Purdy's When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia

== Abstract ==
James P. Purdy's When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia discusses Wikipedia and how it affects our perception about what is authentic and reliable. The article also details how Wikipedia urge us to reassess our expectations in the validity in research material as well as who should be allowed to participate in publishing legitimate content.
== Key Concepts ==
* Author-user: Author-user is a key concept in this article. Author-user emphasizes how users both use wiki's capabilities to revise and add pages while also authoring said wiki page. Purdy mentions that author-users "make a special effort to get readers to participate in article development because encyclopedias are traditionally framed as authoritative, fixed texts." (Purdy, W360).
== Key Terms ==
* Changeability
* Archive
* Design
* Writing