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[Writing for CS] 6. Good Style

  • Text should be taut. Every sentence should be necessary.
  • Tone
    • One topic per section
    • Have one idea per sentence or paragraph
    • Use short sentences with simple structure.
  • Use an example whenever it adds clarification. Each example should be an illustration of one concept; if you don't know what an example is illustrating, change it.
  • A common error is to include material such as definitions or theorems without indicating why the material is useful. Motivate the reader at each major step in the exposition: explain how a definition (theorem, lemma, whatever) is to be used, or why it is interesting, or how it fits into the overall plan.
  • Within a paper, each topic should be discussed to a similar depth.
  • Avoid excessive use of indirect statements
    • Use direct style (active voice) rather than indirect statement(passive voice)
    • Not use artificial use of verbs like "perform", "utilize", "achieved", "carried out", "conducted", "done", "occurred", and "effected"
  • Obfuscation: Making of statements in ambiguous or convoluted terms, with the intention of hiding meaning, or of appearing to say much while actually saying little.
  • Straw man: indefensible hypothesis that an author describes for the sole purpose of criticizing ti. (Suggesting new hypothesis)
  • Citation: Three styles of citation are illustrated above. One is the ordinal-number style, in which entries in the reference list are numbered and are cited by their number. The other is the name-and-date or Harvard style in which entries are cited by author name using either square or round brackets. A third common style is to use superscripted ordinal numbers. Or uppercase abbreviation. 
    • Note, however, that many publishers insist on a particular style.
  • Do not split infinitives or do not begin a sentence with "and" or "but".

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