02.04 Paragraphs and Tables

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PARAGRAPHS AND TABLES

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Editing

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Paragraphs

Each paragraph should express only one idea.

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One idea per paragraph

The duty commander of a Babylon station monitors ships leaving the system. Exiting ships are required to declare a flag registry and destination. Ships arriving in the system must immediately transmit their previous exit declaration. The jump gate controller opens the gate and holds it open until the exiting ship is through.

One idea per paragraph

The duty commander of a Babylon station monitors ships leaving the system. Exiting ships are required to declare a flag registry and destination. Ships arriving in the system must immediately transmit their previous exit declaration. The jump gate controller opens the gate and holds it open until the exiting ship is through.

One idea per paragraph

The duty commander of a Babylon station monitors ships leaving the system. Exiting ships are required to declare a flag registry and destination. Ships arriving in the system must immediately transmit their previous exit declaration. The jump gate controller opens the gate and holds it open until the exiting ship is through.

The duty commander of a Babylon station monitors ships leaving the system. Exiting ships are required to declare a flag registry and destination. The jump gate controller opens the gate and holds it open until the exiting ship is through.
 

Ships arriving in the system must immediately transmit their previous exit declaration.

Connect the sentences

The duty commander of a Babylon station monitors ships leaving the system. Exiting ships are required to declare a flag registry and destination. The jump gate controller opens the gate and holds it open until the exiting ship is through.

Connect the sentences

The duty commander of a Babylon station monitors ships leaving the system. Exiting ships are required to declare a flag registry and destination. The jump gate controller opens the gate and holds it open until the exiting ship is through.

The duty commander of a Babylon station monitors ships leaving the system. To keep the duty commander informed, exiting ships are required to declare a flag registry and destination. When the duty commander gives the signal, the jump gate controller opens the gate and holds it open until the exiting ship is through.

Tables

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If it’s a table, make it a table

Two types of droid are common on cruisers. Protocol droids, such as the humaniform C-3 series, specialize in human-cyborg relations. They are not designed for maintenance work. Meanwhile, R2 units have barrel shapes with multitool extensions, which makes them suitable for many solo engineering tasks. Unlike C-3 droids, they are not shipped with vocoders.​

If it’s a table, make it a table

Two types of droid are common on cruisers. Protocol droids, such as the humaniform C-3 series, specialize in human-cyborg relations. They are not designed for maintenance work. Meanwhile, R2 units have barrel shapes with multitool extensions, which makes them suitable for many solo engineering tasks. Unlike C-3 droids, they are not shipped with vocoders.​

Table 1. Common droid types on cruisers

Series

Type

Function

Form factor

Vocoder

C-3

Protocol

Human-cyborg relations

Humaniform

Y

R2

Maintenance

Solo engineering

Barrel with multitool

N

Fin

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