Course:LIBR559A/LIBR559A Style Guide

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Hi, all!

Here's a simple template to use for formatting. You can use it for new entries if you like by copying and pasting it, but for the articles you've already created, here's simple guidelines:

  • Headings: Break up the article according to the sections that Richard provided (as seen in the template). Label the headings by sandwiching them between three equals signs ( === ). Why? Because that applies some basic formatting, AND automatically generates a table of contents at the top.
  • Keywords: At the bottom of the page, put keywords like so:
    [[Category:LIBR559A]]
    This is how wikis track keywords. When you do this, Wikipedia marks your page as belonging to that category, and lists that article on a new page that also lists all the other pages assigned to that category. This is how we'll cross-reference.


Article Naming Convention

For naming the articles, right now all of the articles exist on a page that is their entire citation (or some variant of it). I'm recommending that we rename like so:

Course:LIBR559A/Lastname, F. (2017)

To do so, go to the top right of the page, and click the little down arrow, and that'll show you a link that says "Move."

a screen capture of the "move" option on UBC wiki for illustrative purposes.


After that, you'll see the following. Select course, and then change "Johnston, J. (2017) to the :

capture of the move screen with relevant sections circled

Template

===Citation===
Smith, J. (2014). Big words and how to use them. University Press. DOI: 1234567.86/pants

===Annotation===
This was a very good article. It talked about a lot of things that we talked about in class, but in a novel way that we didn't do while in class. And I managed to do so in 350 to 500 words, as stated in the homework assignment's description. I am a good student, and a valuable human being. 

Since I decided that this was a good place to start a new paragraph, I left an empty line between the previous line and this one because I don't really want to use HTML tags in formatting. Since this is on a wiki, I can be reasonably sure that the empty line will get the wiki to format the entry for me without having to use the HTML tag. So that's convenient! If I want to make things italic, I can sandwich them between two single quotes ''like so'' and if I want to bold something I can sandwich it between three quotes '''like so''' and the wiki will take care of the rest. 

You can also make a link to another article on this page by putting it in two square brackets. For example: a link to [[Course:LIBR559A]] would look like that. Pretty nifty! 

===Areas / Topics / Keywords===
Words, more words, even more words

[[Category:LIBR559A]]
[[Category:words]]
[[Category:more words]]
[[Category:even more words]]