- Check for LaTeX errors. In the pdf document, you can:
- Ctrl+f for question marks (?)
- Ctrl+f for slashes (forward and backward)
- Check capital letters (and full stops).
- In sentences (do any sentences finish half way through?).
- In titles (are all sub-titles consistently capitalised).
- Brand or algorithm names (like YouTube, youtube, you tube - pick one and use it throughout!).
- Check white space.
- Is there a space after every full stop, comma, punctuation mark?
- Are there any spaces BEFORE punctuation marks (remove them)?
- Have any words run together? A spell checker might find this.
- Is the document layout appropriate?
- Check grammar and spelling.
- Consider Grammarly.
- Do use a spell checker.
- Tenses (be consistent, existing work consistently in the past tense).
- At final drafts, consider a proof reader.
- Check figures.
- Are they complete (or do some of them get chopped up)?
- Is all the text in the figures legible?
- Would they print ok in black and white?
- Do you actually USE every figure (i.e. refer to it from within the text)?
- Are they consistently captioned?
- Figure captions at the bottom.
- Cite the source (if relevant).
- Are they conveniently positioned close to where they're used?
- Check the image quality in the final document.
- Check tables.
- Do you use all the tables within the body of text?
- Are tables legible?
- Table titles at the top.
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