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by anticristi 1677 days ago
I still give these sins to my PhD students.

* Table of contents: The 'inline' ToC, proposed by the author, is way more aesthetical and terse.

* Grandmothering: Don't grandmother. Either be pedagogical or skip to the meat.

* Conclusion: I nowadays prefer the paper-paper-paper format: The abstract is the whole paper, the introduction is the whole paper and the paper is the whole paper. Just the "zoom" level differs. Hence, the conclusion should really bring something new.