When You Take Abbreviations Too Far

Posted by Jules - April 3, 2008 at 12:04:29 pm

We have to read a lot of papers for class. You can tell when they write them without keeping the general reader in mind. The only people who could read through that quickly are the people who work in that area. Is it really necessary to tell us the exact vector construct they created in the figure caption? With everything abbreviated so that we have to keep referring to other parts of the text? I don’t think so.

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