Proteopedia:Guidelines for Ethical Writing: Difference between revisions

Proteopedia pages are different from the scientific literature, Wikipedia and conventional textbooks because they interweave text and interactive figures (through green links and widgets in the text). As an author of a Proteopedia page, it is your responsibility to create interactive figures and write the accompanying text. While you should use some or all of the sources above (and cite the sources you use), your job is to decide how to summarize this material and illustrate it with molecular scenes, choose your audience (e.g. layperson, biochemistry major, high school students), and create a concise and coherent story about your topic. You have to understand what you wrote and what the molecular scenes show, and make sure your readers can as well. Different from a review article, where there is an expectation that readers look at the cited sources if they are new to a topic, your Proteopedia pages should be comprehensible at the intended level without consulting the references (which might be behind a paywall for some viewers).