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Name: Displaying Data in Written Documents
ID: m16576
Language: English (en)
Summary: This guide explains general rules plus specific advice for creating tables, line graphs, scatterplots, bar graphs, histograms, frequency polygons, and pie charts.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Humanities
Keywords: data display, Engineering Communication, writing
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Maintainers: The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication (driskila@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: May 20, 2008 2:28 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Jun 10, 2008 11:31 am -0500

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Version: 1.1 Jun 10, 2008 11:31 am -0500 by The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication
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