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Tips for writing math and science articles (view source)
Revision as of 03:55, July 13, 2009
, 03:55, July 13, 2009Of course it's not my place to set policy; this is a suggestion. Comments welcome.
This page is intended to contain useful information for authors of math and science articles, to make the presentation more uniform and of high quality. Discussion of the general vision for such articles should be on the [[Talk:Mathematics]] page.
This page is intended to contain useful information for authors of math and science articles, to make the presentation more uniform and of high quality. This is an adjunct to the [[Talk:Mathematics]] page.
==General principles==
Keep in mind that the goal of Conservapedia math and science articles is to be educational for middle school, high school, and undergraduate age ranges. It is '''not''' our goal to be "encyclopedic" in the sense of having comprehensive information for professional experts or researchers. Nor is it our goal to teach concepts below middle-school level. So, for example, we assume that the reader knows about basic arithmetic and such elementary scientific concepts as matter, electricity, and light.
In other words, we do not teach people how to add.
We also do not carry proofs of extremely advanced things like Fermat's last theorem, though we do discuss it at an appropriate level.
While we do not carry extremely advanced material, our goal is to '''challenge''' the reader, and to provide '''enrichment''' beyond what might be contained in traditional textbooks. If something is advanced, but you think you can explain it to the target age range, do so.
Keep these considerations in mind when writing articles. Try to explain things in a clear way, that will take the reader to the next level of understanding. Keep in mind what the prerequisites are for following the material in a given page, and indicate what those prerequisite pages are. For concepts that the reader may or may not already know, normal wikilinks to the indicated concept should suffice. In some cases, such as when the presentation in the prerequisite page is crucial, it may be necessary to mention that page explicitly in the introduction.
==Notices of level of difficulty==
==Notices of level of difficulty==