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  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout - Wikipedia

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    However, the section itself is not required; many high-quality and comprehensive articles do not have one. The section should be a bulleted list, sorted either logically (for example, by subject matter), chronologically, or alphabetically. Consider using {{Columns-list}} or {} if the list is lengthy.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    The Disambiguation and redirection templates and Wikipedia page-section templates automatically provide the required italic formatting. Special section headings for appendices such as ==See also== are not in italics. A further type of cross-reference may occur within a paragraph of text, usually in parentheses (round brackets).

  4. Topic and comment - Wikipedia

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    The relation between topic/theme and comment/rheme/focus should not be confused with the topic-comment relation in Rhetorical Structure Theory-Discourse Treebank (RST-DT corpus) where it is defined as "a general statement or topic of discussion is introduced, after which a specific remark is made on the statement or topic".

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lists

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    This is the most common list type on Wikipedia. Bullets are used to discern, at a glance, the individual items in a list, usually when each item in the list is a simple word, phrase or single line of text, for which numeric ordering is not appropriate, or lists that are extremely brief, where discerning the items at a glance is not an issue.

  6. Wikipedia:Writing better articles - Wikipedia

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    When you make a change to some text, rather than appending the new text you would like to see included at the bottom of the page, if you feel so motivated, please place and edit your comments so that they flow seamlessly with the present text. Wikipedia articles should not end up being a series of disjointed comments about a subject, but ...

  7. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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    Phrase structure rules as they are commonly employed result in a view of sentence structure that is constituency-based. Thus, grammars that employ phrase structure rules are constituency grammars (= phrase structure grammars), as opposed to dependency grammars, [4] which view sentence structure as dependency-based. What this means is that for ...

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    If required, the warning should be sufficiently near any text using the special characters that scrolling is not required to see the warning. This is generally after short infoboxes, but before long ones. Images. As with all images, but particularly the lead, the image used should be relevant and technically well-produced.

  9. Topic sentence - Wikipedia

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    In expository writing, a topic sentence is a sentence that summarizes the main idea of a paragraph. [1] [2] It is usually the first sentence in a paragraph. Also known as a topic sentence should encapsulate or organize a entire paragraph. Although topic sentences may appear anywhere in a paragraph, in academic essays they often appear at the ...