Wiki Writing Handbook
A handbook for writers in 100 pages or less.This text-embedded-in-a-course addresses how to use a wiki to generate, organize, re-organize writing that will primarily be written in and read on a wiki. The tool shapes the creation: Ask a carpenter, a poet, a painter, a musician. Ask McLuhan. The wiki as a tool for writing changes the way we create and read writing. Just as it is unlike a pencil, pen, typewriter, even wordprocessor, so writing practices that lead to effective production of writing on a wiki are significantly different than those used with other tools.
We're writing this text with the idea that anyone who needs to create writing with or on or for a wiki might find it useful.
We're embedding it as a set of pages in a larger wiki as a matter of ease and experiment.
preface
table of contents
- ModesOfComposition
- ThreadMode : DialogueMode
- DocumentMode
- RefactoringPages
- PagePatterns
- DialecticMode
- StyleGuide
- ThePurposeOfAStyleGuide
- RefactoringIsDifficult
- InventionInAWiki, WikiPlacesOfInvention
- CreateAMode: FAQMode, ListMode, CategoryMode
advanced
- CollaborateRadically
- CollaborationPrimer
- CollaborationConventions
- WritingCollectively and WritingCollaboratively
- RefactoringStrategies
- LargerStructures
- WritingInTopics | TopicalWriting
- NamingTopics
- INeedAMap
- WikiWord
- Rhizomatic development, wiki as rhizome
other
These pages need writing from the ground up: they don't exist on the other wikislinks and linking
formatting and structuring pages
- FormattingPages - think of it as ongoing, of course.
- UsingFormattingToDraft - that is, using formatting to aid invention and organization while drafting. references to Crowley, Methodical Memory.
- FormattingForMeaning - reformatting as refactoring. Reworking the formatting for meaning rather than management.
exercises
for teachers
others
- page on signing/tracking pages for grading (via J Moxley)
CategoryWikiHandbook
