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On these notes pages, the page and chapter numbers refer to The Craft of Scientific Writing, 3rd edition (Springer-Verlag, 1996). Also referred to is the “Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students,” which can be found at the following address: / At that page, you will find links to the “Writing Exercises for Engineers and Scientists” and to the “Handbook for Instructors.” If you would like a 60-day evaluation copy of The Craft of Scientific Writing, please go to the following web page: http://www.springer.de/textbooks/textbook_inspect.html This first slide is a title slide for an introductory lecture about formatting scientific documents. This presentation has several purposes. The first purpose is to make sure that students know what the term format means and not to confuse that term with the terms style or structure. The second purpose is to dispel the misconception that many students adopt that only one correct way exists to format a document. The third purpose is to teach students a few principles about typography and layout. Shown as an example is the first page of a journal article. Students should realize that the format for a set of instruction, a report, a presentation slide, or a poster would look much different. (Pages 6 and 7) Reference for example article: Radomsky, R., and Thole, K. A., 2000, “High Freestream Turbulence Effects in the Endwall Leading Edge Region,” Journal of Turbomachinery, vol. 122, pp. 699-708. This background slide makes the point that many different formats in scientific writing exist, and these formats differ significantly to serve various situations. For instance, journal articles typically have multiple columns and smaller type to pack more information into fewer number of pages. Presentation slides typically use a sans serif typeface because in small text blocks, sans serif type is read more quickly than serif typefaces are. These differences confuse many engineers and scientists who often look for universa