The structure and tags for the library research wiki will emerge and evolve as we build it, but here are a few suggestions to get us started.

What to write about on the Research and Reading Wiki

• Course resource lists (informal lists of resources related to courses taught at MW)
• How to research (how-to guides to help improve your Web search skills, provide tips for a stage in the research process, etc.)
• Reading guides (recommended reading lists about a particular topic, etc.)
  
• Topic research guides (detailed guides about researching a particular topic, such as Shakespeare)
• Tools for research (pages about using a certain research tool for brainstorming, bookmarking, citing, etc.)

Creating a new page
You can download visual step-by-step guides (PDF) about how to join this wiki, edit an existing page, or add a new page by scrolling to the bottom of this page and opening the related attachments.

Before creating a new page, go to the existing page with which the new page should be connected. For instance, before creating a page describing the data-sharing tool Swivel, click onTools for research, then on Add a new page in the Page Toolbox on the right. This will automatically make the page about Swivel a subpage of Tools in the wiki's navigation menu. Choose simple page names; in this case, the page name Swivel would be appropriate. Remember to add meaningful tags to your page using the guidelines below.

Guidelines for tagging new pages and edits on the wiki

• Use verbs in their present active tense (e.g. evaluate instead of evaluating or evaluated)
• Use singular nouns (e.g. database instead of databases)
• Use a single word or a two-word phrase (e.g. visualization or data visualization rather than how to visualize data)
• Avoid using adjectives or adverbs as tags
• Whenever possible, use a tag already in use on the wiki.