ChE Fundamentalist

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Nathan2055^{talk - review} 00:41, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Physical chemistry

Great. Thanks! Materialscientist (talk) 05:53, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for providing feedback. I'm still learning. ChE Fundamentalist (talk) 06:00, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I thought that your version was very wordy, but I probably was not careful with my English. One recommendation is to organize the article after the main headings guided by the Table of Contents of a modern dominant textbook like Atkins. Otherwise you risk WP:synthesis, which is a real no-no here. Many new editors risk it by just launching into essays. Another advantage of the TOC approach is that the organization of an established text inspires sectioning, which greatly improves readability and editability. No one wants to read a long section.--Smokefoot (talk) 22:26, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. It was wordy, with too many run-ons especially, and I wasn't aware of WP:synthesis. I like the idea of the TOC approach, but I don't believe it will work for a non-specialist article on physical chemistry. The modern textbooks aren't always representative of the historical scope of the subject. A synthesis of multiple sources will be necessary, but I'll try to make sure that the synthesis itself can be referenced. ChE Fundamentalist (talk) 22:59, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

This isn't advice but opinion. My guess is that the 99% of readers of the article on physical chemistry are students who want to know the scope of the subject to plan their coursework or prepare for examinations. Hence the TOC approach, and then you can use subsections with

Main article: topic

. My guess is that student readers simply will not read about the history of the field since they are not tested on it. Setting aside thermo which is always the focus of such a course, a more challenging aspect is balancing old-school physical chemistry (colloids, catalysis, kinetics, echem) vs the stuff we teach (stat mech, quantum, spectroscopy). Good luck, --Smokefoot (talk) 13:36, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

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