Many people perform or write better when there is an audience. 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’s point is that when someone knows that they have to perform well because others are watching, they will work harder and more diligently. When you write an assignment for an english course or an email, you tend not to take the time to write your best. 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 behavior in which the students wrote was far more superior than that at which they had been writing at before.