User:Polypompholyx

Please edit the 'List of student editors' subsection below to add yourself to the project. Use the [edit] link next to the 'List of student editors' subheading below, to avoid any possibility of trashing the rest of this page! You need to include:

Here are some pages that you should consider editing. I will also consider (but not necessarily accept!) your own suggestions, but any article you select yourself will need to be justified clearly: the expected audience needs to be much larger than just you, me, and the second-marker. As with the suggested targets below, your selected article should either be quite broad and therefore of interest to a wide general audience (consider A-level specification topics, or the topics of substantial pieces of the early part of your degree); or, if the topic is more specific, it needs to be important (model organisms, invasive species, enzymes of central metabolism, important receptor molecules) and therefore of interest to a more specialist audience, but still a reasonably large one. I suggest you read the article on gas exchange as a good example of what you can bring in terms of accessibility, clarity, and technical detail to an article on a general topic: it's not perfect, but it's very much more the kind of topic I want you to approach, rather than a monograph on an extremely obscure taxon or protein.

Whatever article you choose, it must be written as accessibly as possible. In particular, the lead section should be as clear as you can possibly make it, and understandable to - at worst! - a first-year undergraduate student.

A larger list of biology and ecology topics may also be a useful place to look for inspiration, particularly those tagged for Clarity or Content issues.

Articles need to conform to the Manual of Style - in particular:

You should also add the following tag to the Talk page of the article you want to edit to mark it out as an educational assigment:

It should render like this once you have (previewed and) saved the Talk page:

Also briefly introduce yourself on the Talk page of the article, explaining your intentions and the main things you want to do to the article: this will help you avoid editing conflicts. If you create an article from scratch, make sure it has the educational assignment tag added to its Talk retrospectively. Be mindful of the additional community standards of any that your article belongs to, especially .

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