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Comment Post #286821 While your first question is reasonably focused, though probably difficult to answer authoritatively, your second "question" (where the existence of multiple parts identified by you as different questions within a single question post is already a red flag) actually consists of a multitude of questio...
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Comment Post #286821 For an example of where Aviationish differs from English, if you watch reenactments of aviation accidents or even read transcripts of radio communications in aviation accident investigation reports, there will be times where air traffic controllers ask the pilots for "number of souls on board". They ...
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Comment Post #286821 Not to mention that at least aviation checklists are hardly prosaic in the first place. Those might say "oxygen masks - don" or "spoilers - arm" or "pitot heat - as required". There have even been fairly high-profile aviation accidents that have cost lives where merely the complexity of individual ch...
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Comment Post #286821 Aviation does not "forbid" the use of either "ascend" or "descend", or for that matter other similar-sounding words; there's no central authority that's going to issue a citation to a pilot who uses non-standard phraseology. (That said, if using non-standard phraseology might cause or even contribute...
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Comment Post #285947 Are you working to any particular style guide (APA, MLA, Oxford, ...), or is your work more free-form?
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Comment Post #284237 You might want to check out our [*Challenges* category](/categories/20). Don't be afraid to post something to an old one, either.
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Comment Post #283855 Not my downvote, but I'm not sure how or whether this is a question about the process of writing; see [Writing's scope](/help/faq) for more details on the scope. Also, I have seen *plenty* of poor or unclear questions being closed, edited into shape, and subsequently reopened, so there clearly exist ...
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Answer A: HTML tags versus CSS classes: is one preferred over the other for the same styling?
As a general rule of thumb, CSS defines presentation, while the HTML should express semantic meaning and document structure. The HTML spec is clear that the `` element represents a fragment of computer code, and even goes as far as to say that this could be pretty much anything from an element nam...
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Comment Post #281074 While we do allow self-answers, it's really rather strange to post a self-answer suggesting a solution that one's own question explicitly disallows.
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Comment Post #279019 The more I think about it, the more this feels like the way to go, as long as we can carefully apply the criteria also to answers to unclaimed/unimproved questions. Also, let's not forget that we can **selectively** import **specific** questions and their answers if desired. (This applies also to mor...
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Answer A: Is there any benefit when writing out instructions to split it up into lots of little paragraphs, or is it better to leave it in one paragraph?
As already said, instructions are about helping the reader do the steps in the right order without missing any of them. This, of course, can take different forms in different contexts. Recipes is one example. Another that I am personally familiar with is airplane checklists, which have the pilo...
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Question How to determine relative success of different, similar books published by different means?
This answer discusses how to choose between traditional print publishing, ebook publishing, self publishing, etc., and concludes by stating that > You should publish your book using the channel where books like yours are typically most successful. That's certainly sensible advice, and probably ...
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Comment Post #277206 @Mithical Part of my reasoning behind this challenge was precisely to get people to move a little outside of their comfort zone. Animals feature in a lot of creative writing in particular, but usually do so as, at most, minor side characters. For a lot of authors, putting animals front and center (wh...
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Question How to keep track of worthwhile snippets from discovery writing, which don't work where they were first written?
Sometimes, when I write, I find myself writing down a path that ends up not leading at all where I wanted to go with what I was writing. That's to be expected when discovery-writing. Depending on the magnitude of the issues, that may be fixable in-place, or it might be more appropriate to simply b...
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