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Publishing your work via the Internet can be a wonderful experience. A carefully written wiki page or blog can attract signficant readership. While the potential for a significant number of interested readers is real and empowering, dire consequences can result if you publish a text on the Internet that breaks with etiquette or reveals too much personal information that reflects badly, for example, on the company you work with or university attend. It has become commonplace, in fact, for newspapers to report on individuals who have been fired because of inappropriate things written in their blogs during non-working hours. The bottom line is that you must be careful about what you publish on the Internet. Think before you publish. Dont publish anything that will embarrass you tomorrow, next week, or in 20 years. ContributorsJoeMoxley, Darcy Webber, Vivian Taylor Sharing your work with readers is an exciting and important stage of the writing process. Ultimately, you cannot determine if a document is successful until you share it with your readers and gauge their reactions. Reaching significant readers and helping them understand your thoughts on an issue can be remarkably satisfying. Thanks to the Internet and powerful software tools, you can professionally present your work. Knowing that readers will make opinions regarding your ability to think and communicate, you want to ensure that your published work represents your best effort. Even work published on an Internet site should be carefully crafted. Remember that tools such as the Way Back Machine exist, which can immortalize your words in digital archives. Before publishing a work, always take a moment to reflect on its quality, ensuring the work represents your best effort.
Publishing can be defined as any act that involves making your work public:
Publishing may refer to reading your paper out loud to other people.
Publishing may refer to sharing texts with a group of peers in school via photocopying and distribution of a hard copy of your work, or in an electronic format such as an email attachment to friends.
Publishing may refer to the traditional author-publishing context, whereby the author submits a text to a publishing company; the text is reviewed and accepted or rejected. Often, authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit. After the text is developed and accepted for publication, the publisher prints the work and markets it. The author then receives royalties based on sales. In this model, a text (such as a journal article or book) may take years to actually arrive in bookstores. Publishing may refer to publishing work online. Thanks to the Internet and numerous new online writing forums, (such as blogs or wikis), you can reach hundreds, perhaps thousands (even millions) of readers, even though your work is not supported by an institution or association.
Publishing may involve an interactive forum where the author and reader exist in a dialectical relationship. Thanks to the Internet and Web publishing tools, our conception of publishing is becoming more dynamic. Authors can publish a version on the Web, readers can immediately respond, using discuss tools, email, online forums, and the writer can then revise. Opponents of public writing claim that the aforementioned forums, except for the traditional author-publishing context, are too public. They voice concerns about intellectual property, copyright infringement, and idea snatching. These traditionalists are at risk of being labelled outdated or even paranoid and even worse, missing out on helpful opportunities to receive valuable feedback from peers. In our technological age, we should take full advantage of our ability to email a draft to a few colleagues in hopes of receiving helpful feedback. We should be proud and confident to submit our scholarship to public writing spaces such as wikis and blogs. Every writer knows that audience reaction and participation is a valuable part of the writing process and public writing spaces offer vast audiences access to our work. We should utilize these spaces to reach these audiences.
