Many people perform better when there is an audience. This audience effect is all around us; therefore, whether we are at work or in the classroom, it is present.  Clive Thompson writes,“In live, face-to-face situations, like sports or live music, the audience effect often makes runners or musicians perform better” (Clive Thompson, Public Thinking 54). Thompson argues that, those who perform for an audience will spend more time perfecting their presentation. With the idea of  faceless people critiquing your performance, the amount of thought and work put into that task will be greater than the thought and work put into a task that is not presented.  Many students today do not have the motivation to write an impressive paper, but if they had the incentives to do so, such as writing for an online community, than their true rhetorical skills will be expressed in their writings. Thompson notes in his paper that Brenna Grey Clark, professor at Douglas College in British Columbia, used this concept to see if her students would perform better on their essays. She had her students write essays about Canadian authors and told them that their essays would be placed on Wikipedia, a highly public website where the audience can respond and alter entrees. Clark stated about her students, “Often they are handing in these short essays without any citations, but with Wikipedia they were staying up till two a.m. honing and rewriting their entries” (Brenna Clark, Public Thinking 56). The internet helped connect Clark’s students to an audience that of which gave them incentives to write at a much higher level. Through the use of the internet and the concept of the audience effect, the quality in which the students wrote was far more superior than that at which they had been writing at before.