Research Subteam Wiki Pages: What to write about and where to locate it
For an example of a well-formatted research wiki space, please review the chemical doser pages.
Research Subteams' Main Wiki Pages
All research teams are required to update their wiki pages with information explaining their semester's work. Your main research page should be written following the format explained below.
What to Include on Your Main
Wiki Organization
Each team wiki page needs to be thoroughly organized and updated using the following guidelines.
Main Team Research Page
Some research teams are a subteam of a single larger research area. For those cases the main research page should have the setup explained below. Also be sure to communicate with the other subteams of your main research team to make sure that the overview is up-to-date. You will also want to include a picture or image representing your main research page.
Ex.
h1. "Subteam Name"
h2. Overview
The "team name" team works on . . .
"Team name" goals and meeting minutes.
h2. Research Teams
* Brief explanation of subteam research area
* Brief explanation of subteam research area
...
Page
Each subteam page should start with an h1 heading of the team name. This should be followed by an h2 heading of "Overview", which is essentially and abstract. The overview should be a brief paragraph explaining what the purpose of the team along with other relevant information and relavent linksan abstract followed by the introduction and objectives. You should also include a picture next to your overview paragraphoverview. Try to keep the entire overview to two short paragraphs.
Below this paragraph the overview each team should have links to their goals and meeting minutes pages.
Abstract
Write a brief abstract that summarizes your report. Remember that some readers will only read the abstract, so make sure it contains the most important information. Do not just add to the past abstract, update it or rewrite it to reflect the progress that has been made and the work that is being done currently.
Introduction and Objectives
Write a paragraph on the goals of your team project. Why did you decide to do this project? How does this project connect with the AguaClara goals? Introduce your approach to solving the problem you were working on by explaining what needs to be done to meet your goal. What did you hope to learn? How did you expect your work to guide the construction of water treatment plants or to improve drinking water quality in the Global South?
What to Add as Child Pages Off of Your Main Page
Following the overview Following that should be a section titled "Experimental Methods and Results". There Here you should be list links to a each separate page, one page for each experiment (which has . Each experimental page contains both the methods and results on it)for that experiment. Under each link there should also be a brief description of the experiment.
Procedures
Add new experiments to your wiki as child pages of your main page.
Provide an overview of the methods that you used in your investigation. The best procedures give an overview of the method with an explanation of why you used those methods. When method development is part of your project, a detailed description of the methods should be included. Methods and procedures need to be detailed enough so that one of your classmates could duplicate your work.
Results and Discussion
Results and discussion should be on the same page as procedures for each experiment. After you have thoroughly explained the procedure, you should then report and discuss your results.
Present results in a clearly labeled format. Avoid tables unless that really is the best way to present the data. Graphs and tables should be presented in this section. The report text should refer to each figure and table. Graphs should be sized so that they are easily readable, but not so large that they take an entire page. Use a table to show relevant experimental parameters (such as measured flow rates, sample sizes, concentrations of reagents, etc.) in your report if appropriate.
Compare theoretical expectations with your results and discuss reasons for any observed deviations. If the results weren't as expected, suggest reasons why the laboratory results may have differed from theory and suggest improved techniques to obtain more accurate results or modifications to the theory to better describe the simulation.
Be sure to follow these editing guidelines and graphing procedures to get the best readability.
Conclusions
The conclusions section should not include any new observations, but is the place to summarize the results in a few sentences. Make sure you connect your conclusions to your objectives for doing the research. Conclusions should be placed directly after the results and discussion section for each experiment. Conclusions addressing results from multiple experiments should be added as a separate page off the subteam's main page, listed after all of the experiments.
Additional Information Section for Main Wiki Page
Your team will also need to create an additional information section. It may include a link to a list of relevant literature, or a link to a page with ideas for necessary training for future team members.
Ex.
h1. "Subteam Name"
h2. Abstract
...
If your research subteam is closely related to other subteams and you share a wiki page with them
(For an example, see the Automated Plant Inflow System teams)
Some research subteams share a parent page with other related teams. Those teams will have to communicate with one another to share responsibility for updating that parent page. Parent research pages should have an image that represents the way the subteams' projects fit together, and links to each of the individual subteam main pages. You should also include a brief up-to-date description of what each of the subteams does.
h1. "Parent Project"
h2. Overview
h2. Research Teams Involved
* Brief explanation of subteam research area
* Brief explanation of subteam research area