Use figures in your writing! Different people have different ways of learning, so you should complement a mathematical or textual presentation along with a graphical one. Even for the people whose primary learning modality is textual, however, another presentation of the ideas can very well clarify, fill the gaps, or can enable the reader to verify his/her understandings. Figures help to illustrate the concepts, draw a skimming reader in to the text (or communicate a key idea to that particular reader), and make the term paper more visually appealing and attractive.

It is very helpful to give an example that helps to clarify your ideas: which can make concrete in a readers mind, what your techniques actually does (and why was it hard). A running example that was used throughout the paper is always helpful in illustrating as to how your algorithm works, a single example that permits you to amortize the time that has been spent explaining the example.

A figure should contain all the information that is necessary to understand it and should always stand on its own. Good captions always contain multiple sentences; the caption provides the context as well as the explanation. For example, see the magazines such as American Scientific and Scientific American. The caption may also explain the meaning of the columns that are in a table or of the symbols that are in a specific figure. However, it is always better to put that information in the proper figure; for example, use a label or a legend.

When the body of your paper, contains any information that is in the caption, it results in having a number of negative effects. The reader is being forced by you to hunt all over the paper in order to understand the figure that has been given by you. The flow of writing should just be interrupted with details that are important and relevant only when there is a need of that detail or only when the reader is actually looking at the figure. The figures however become ineffective when the reader has to actually scan the paper to look for it – which is an important constituency that you should cater to.

For naming, use the pictorial elements consistently. Use two different types of arrows (or boxes, shading, highlighting, etc.) when they are to denote distinct concepts; you should not introduce inconsistencies just because they please your personal aesthetic sense. Almost every diagram that has multiple types of elements require a legend to explain as to what each one of the diagram means; and so do many other diagrams that are with just one type of element, to explain what actually is happening.

The examples of your code should be either a real code, or should be close to being the real code. Avoid using any synthetic examples such as the methods or the variables named. The examples that are randomly made by you are very hard for the reader to understand and build an intuition regarding it. Furthermore, the reader is been given an impression that the technique that you have used is not applicable in practice – as you couldn’t find any real appropriate examples to illustrate it in a proper manner, so you just had to make up something from your own, which was what you exactly did.

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