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+# TO DO
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+- Add a section on Style
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+## Style hints (common errors)
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+- Citations are annotations, not parts of speech.
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+Don't say: "in [Nier10a], the author claims ..." but "Nierstrasz [Nier10a] claims"
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+Acid test: you should be able to delete the citation and the sentence should still be grammatically correct.
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