15 Sentence length, conciseness, clarity and ambiguity ............

15.1 maximum two ideas per sentence ....................................
15.2 put information in chronological order, particularly
in the methods section ......................................................
15.3 avoid parenthetical phrases ..............................................
15.4 avoid redundancy .............................................................
15.5 prefer verbs to nouns ........................................................
15.6 use adjectives rather than nouns ......................................
15.7 be careful of use of personal pronouns: you, one, he,
she, they ...........................................................................

15.8 essential and non-essential use of: we, us, our ................
15.9 avoid informal words and contractions .............................
15.10 emphatic do / does, giving emphasis
with auxiliary verbs ...........................................................
15.11 ensuring consistency throughout a manuscript ................
15.12 translating concepts that only exist in your
country / language ............................................................
15.13 always use the same key words: repetition of words
is not a problem ................................................................
15.14 avoid ambiguity when using the former /
the latter, which, and pronouns.........................................
15.15 avoid ambiguity when using as, in accordance with,
according to ......................................................................
15.16 when expressing a negative concept using a negation ....

16 Word order: nouns and verbs ...................................................
16.1 put the subject before the verb and as near as possible
to the beginning of the phrase ..........................................
16.2 decide what to put first in a sentence: alternatives ...........
16.3 do not delay the subject ....................................................
16.4 avoid long subjects that delay the main verb ....................
16.5 inversion of subject and verb ............................................
16.6 inversion of subject and verb with only, rarely,
seldom etc. .......................................................................
16.7 inversions with so, neither, nor .........................................
16.8 put direct object before indirect object ..............................
16.9 phrasal verbs ....................................................................
16.10 noun + noun and noun + of + noun constructions ............
16.11 strings of nouns: use prepositions where possible ...........
16.12 deciding which noun to put first in strings of nouns ..........
16.13 position of prepositions with which, who and where .........

17 Word order: adverbs...................................................................
17.1 frequency + also, only, just, already ..................................
17.2 probability .........................................................................
17.3 manner .............................................................................
17.4 time ...................................................................................
17.5 first(ly), second(ly) etc. ......................................................
17.6 adverbs with more than one meaning ..............................
17.7 shift the negation word (no, not, nothing etc.) to near
the beginning of the phrase ..............................................

18 Word order: adjectives and past participles ............................
18.1 adjectives ..........................................................................
18.2 multiple adjectives ............................................................
18.3 ensure it is clear which noun an adjective refers to ..........
18.4 past participles .................................................................

22 Acronyms: usage, grammar, plurals, punctuation ..................

22.1 main usage .......................................................................
22.2 foreign acronyms ..............................................................
22.3 grammar ...........................................................................
22.4 punctuation .......................................................................

23 Abbreviations and Latin words: usage meaning,
punctuation .................................................................................
23.1 usage ................................................................................
23.2 punctuation .......................................................................
23.3 abbreviations found in bibliographies ................................
23.4 common Latin expressions and abbreviations ..................

24 Capitalization: headings, dates, fi gures etc. ............................
24.1 titles and section headings ...............................................
24.2 days, months, countries, nationalities,
natural languages .............................................................
24.3 academic titles, degrees, subjects (of study),
departments, institutes, faculties, universities ..................
24.4 figure, table, section etc.; step, phase, stage etc. .............
24.5 keywords...........................................................................
24.6 acronyms ..........................................................................
24.7 euro, the internet ..............................................................

25 Punctuation: apostrophes, colons, commas etc. ....................
25.1 apostrophes (’) ..................................................................
25.2 colons (:) ...........................................................................
25.3 commas (,): usage ............................................................
25.4 commas (,): non usage .....................................................
25.5 dashes (_).........................................................................
25.6 hyphens (-): part 1 ............................................................
25.7 hyphens (-): part 2 ............................................................
25.8 parentheses ( ) .................................................................
25.9 periods (.) .........................................................................
25.10 quotation marks (‘ ’) ..........................................................
25.11 semicolons (;) ...................................................................
25.12 bullets: round, numbered, ticked .......................................
25.13 bullets: consistency and avoiding redundancy ..................