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Section titles should have consistent capitalization.
- Title Case: Capitalize the first and last words and all major words in between.
- Good: Introduction to Fuzzing with LLMs
- Sentence case: Capitalize only the first word and proper nouns.
- Good: Introduction to fuzzing with LLMs
- Choose one style and be consistent throughout the paper.
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Avoid passive voice unless strongly justifiable. Passive voice is ambiguous because it has no subject unless followed by "by...".
- Bad: LLM was applied to fuzzing. (Who applied it? The authors or someone else?)
- Good: We applied LLM to fuzzing.
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Avoid nominalization.
- Bad: He made a proposal to use Rust.
- Good: He proposed to use Rust.
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Avoid "There is/are".
- Bad: There are many developers of Rust.
- Good: Many developers use Rust.
- Good: Rust has many developers.
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"Which" vs "that": Use "which" in a nonrestrictive clause and "that" in a restrictive clause. More...
- Wrong: Rust that is safe is popular. (This is wrong because there is only one Rust.)
- Right: Rust, which is safe, is popular.
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Distinguish coordinating conjunction vs conjunctive adverbs.
- Wrong: C is dangerous, Rust is safe. (Cannot join two sentences by a comma)
- Right: C is dangerous, but Rust is safe.
- Wrong: C is dangerous, however Rust is safe.
- Right: C is dangerous; however, Rust is safe.
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"Fewer" modifies countable nouns whereas "less" uncountable nouns.
- Wrong: ten items or less
- Right: ten items or fewer
- Wrong: fewer feedback
- Right: less feedback
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Use articles (a, an, the) properly.
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A singular countable noun must be preceded by an article.
- Wrong: I wrote Rust program.
- Right: I wrote a Rust program.
- Right: I wrote Rust programs.
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The must have a reference that is unique either by fact or in the context.
- Right: the first Rust programmer (unique by fact)
- Right: Our team has a Rust and a C++ programmer. The Rust programmer produces the fastest, most robust code. (unique in the context)
- Wrong: Our team has two Rust and two C++ programmers. The Rust programmer is more productive than the C++ programmer.
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Distinguish between compare with and compare to
- Right: Rust is safer compared with C.
- Right: Some people compare Rust to a panacea for memory safety problems.
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Use modern implementations of LaTeX to take advantage of Unicode and other useful features.
- Use LuaLaTeX instead of LaTeX or pdfLaTeX
- Use BibLaTeX for
acmart and ieeetrans templates instead of BibTex
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Use correct typefaces. Particularly, italics should be used for variables but not for descriptive terms. More...
- Wrong: $t_{max}$
- Right: $t_\text{max}$
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Do not manually add separators in large numbers. \usepackage{siunitx}. Then, wrap large numbers in \num{}.
- Bad: 12,345
- Good:
\num{12345}
