User:Jy865/Swarming motility/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Outline of proposed changes
Once you've compiled a bibliography for your chosen article, it's now time to write up a brief plan for your contribution. This is not a draft. It's a space where you can propose your plan for how you'll improve your selected article.

Think about how the sources you've collected will add new information to the article.


 * (Potential) Contribution plan:
 * Adding a "background" section (most important - majority of information is missing here)
 * Adding a "characteristics" or "behavior" section
 * Adding a "causes" section
 * Adding an "applications" or "significance" section
 * Plan for article changes:
 * Restructure the article
 * Most of the Talk page discussions state that the article is difficult to understand or does not provide sufficient clarity on the topic details. Restructuring the article's contents from broad to specific helps organize the information in a more manner that is easier to understand:
 * Introduction
 * Background
 * Characteristics/Behavior
 * Causes
 * Applications/Significance
 * Restructuring the article explicitly into broader categories and sub-categories, or providing implicit structure in the writing likewise helps group information into more relevant and flowing sections:
 * Introduction (keep mostly same as is)
 * Definitions
 * Briefly mention other relevant articles/contexts
 * Briefly mention applications and characteristics
 * Briefly overview article sections
 * Background
 * Discovery, major figures
 * Developments on theory/understanding
 * Current theory/understanding
 * Characteristics/Behavior
 * Organize by characteristic as needed. This section was suggested by a Talk page discussion contribution.
 * Causes
 * Organize by cause as needed
 * Current applications/Significance
 * Organize by applications/significance as needed
 * One Talk page discussion stated the article provided only a very vague understanding of the topic. Renaming article headers using plain terms as opposed to scientific will in part help make the article more inclusive of a broader audience (e.g., individuals with a non-scientific background interested in the article may more easily scan through or understand article contents). Current new header names are temporary; better representative terms may be used later:
 * Old: "Biosurfactant, quorum sensing and swarming" -> "Causes"
 * Old: "Cellular differentiation" -> possibly no name change, but may go under "Characteristics" section
 * Old: "Ecological significance" -> possibly either changing to "Significance" or will fall under "significance"
 * One Talk page discussion argued that "Saying that "biosurfactant molecules are thought to act by lowering surface tension" is like saying that fat works by being oily. It's not an explanation." This may be revised later with added specificity for increased clarity.