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An Article page on StudyPlace presents the results of studying a topic, the outcome of study, which readers inquiring about what educates should find interesting and significant. A Study page should facilitate the process of studying a topic that will enable a small group of specially interested peers to produce the article on the topic.

You reach the Study page clicking on the 2nd tab to the left above. It is an integral part of each article. Through it, contributors build a peer-produced study guide, sharing generative questions about the topic and evaluating sources potentially useful in working on it. In the talk section, they can assess how well the article treats its topic and plan improvements to it. A Study page is akin to a literature review for a topic, addressed to those who want to collaborate with others in working on it. It should facilitate the collaborative work of peer production and provide a sense of the resources for work on it available to contributors through the Internet and academic research libraries.

To set a Study page up, place {{subst:study}} at the top of it and click Save page. That will put a framework onto the page, dividing it into a Study and a Talk section and providing some subheadings for the former.

• In the Study part, you can note and outline key ideas, indicate important questions to be addressed, selectively marshal the available literature, and suggest experiential insights about what educates or miseducates with respect to the article. The Study section will create a current state-of-the-art, as well as a pertinent condition-of-life, which will together serve as intellectual and experiential context for the creative work on the article page, its peerhood, so to speak. Usually, the Study section will set out a fuller set of questions, ideas, and resources than the text of the actual article will do justice to in its current state. Thus, the Study section will indicate the standards that the editors of an article should seek to meet and the lower the gap between the ideal mastery indicated in the Study section and the evident grounding of the actual article, the more authority readers can accord to the article.

• In the Talk part, StudyPlace contributors discuss matters of coordination with others. Wikis like StudyPlace are not managed in a top-down, hierarchical manner. Often productive collaboration happens spontaneously; occasionally editors need to discuss ideas, work out disagreements or misunderstanding, or plan how to allocate effort. Use the Talk section for such purposes. There is a good explanation of conventions for doing so on Wikipedia.