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Se FEE EEO eEE CEL EEE CEP E EC EEE ECO EPEEEEEEEE Eee EEE Tree er err ere) ‘© Try not to start sentences with "so", "and", "but", "therefore", "moreover" or "however" These words are used to link two concepis or ideas: putting both concepts in the same sentence (perhaps with a semi-colon) helps establish this link. © (If an entire sentence is enclosed within brackets, the full stop comes within the brackets.) Otherwise, if'a sentence starts before the open bracket, the full stop comes after the closing bracket (like this). © Semi-colons. There are many times when they are useful: separating items in lists; separating items in a sentence that have their own internal commas; joining two complete sentences with very closely related contents. ‘* Colons mean "OK reader, here it comes", and must follow what, up to the colon, has been a complete sentence. You need many things to write a successful project report: style; something interesting to say; and these notes. © It's acceptable to occasionally split an infinitive when the alternative would be cumbersome ‘© kHz, please, not KHz or khz""; similarly for MHz. (It's always entertaining to read about processors running at 20 mHz, but it doesn't get many marks.) You might have to convince Word not to automatically ‘correet” these for you; this can be done in the Tools/Auto correct window. ‘© like the convention that there is a space between the number and the units "3.4 kHz", not "'3.4kHz", but this is a matter of taste, The important thing is to be consistent. The problem is when you get to the end of a line at the wrong point in the sentence, and get 3 kHz, with the 3 on one line and the kHz on the next, which looks inelegant. There’s an easy way round this: don’t use a normal space between the 3 and the KHz, use a Ctrl-Shift-Space. Word won’t break a line on a Ctrl-Shift-Space. (The same is true for Ctrl-Shift-hyphens, Word won't split a line on those, even though they otherwise look exactly like a normal hyphen.) ‘* Fewer people, less noise. If you can count them, use “fewer”. If you can’t, use “es Whoever wrote the notice “eight items or less” sometimes found at supermarket checkouts, is clearly illiterate © License is a verb, licence is anoun, The magistrate granted a licence, licensing the licensee. 27 ‘cuit Diagrams See Horowitz and Hill's "The Art of Electronics" fora good introduction on how to draw circuit, diagrams. Golden rules: make them legible; minimise the number of long wires going all over the place (use ground symbols and internal tags if needed); use bus symbols; and include either reference designators (c.g. R23 for a resistor) and a bill of materials which tells me what valuc, '" Although note that Kbaud is OK. 1 Kbaud means 1024 symbols per second, 1 kbaud means 1000 symbols per second, Unfortunately, 1Mbaud can mean either 1048576 or 10° symbols per second, If you want to be absolutely clear that you mean 1048576 baud, then you could use mebibaud. This is the IEC standard, although not many people seem to use it ‘© 2002-22 University of York is Version 6

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