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General examples of style in English usage - Part 8

Notes on Writing Style in English.

These are notes I made while translating from German into English. They are things that crop up again and again, and are worth noting down.

* * *  The use of Figures and Fig. * * *

- (see Fig.1)

- Fig. 1

- Figure 1. shows…., subsequent figures show….

- (Fig. 3.2)

- (see Figs 3.17 and 3.18)

* * *

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- OK (use capital letters)

- START-UP

- In Sec. 11.4.2 (abbreviation of "Section")

- etc. (a single period at end of a sentence)

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