Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Use of Contractions in Scientific Writing
It is almost unanimous a belief that one should not use contractions and scientific writing. Most scientific readers, of course, are not native english speakers, so we should be considerate of them. But i mead for anybody who has any let's say, you know fluency or familiarity with english that cannot sounds and means something you know,. Almost diametrically opposed to can't writ there are shades of meaning that come into the use of contractions. O, this goes back to using the whole language. And so ou you can certainly make an argument for using contractions along those lines. I actually think the use of common contractions just makes the writing more engaging and easier to
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