For a reader, informative, concise, and good structured articles and figures (graphics) are very important. In this article I briefly introduce some resources on the web. You are welcome to point me to other web sites. Altough some links are originally related to typesetting in LaTeX, the rules and hints are much more general.
Link Collection
- Dos and don'ts writing a paper
- Twenty rules for good graphics
- Terence Tao's "On writing" and "Writing in your own voice"
- Some general rules for figures are in Section 4 of http://paws.wcu.edu/tsfoguel/tikzpgfmanual.pdf
- On good tables in Section 2 of http://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/tex/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/booktabs.pdf
- Graphics, tables, circuits, SI-units, and bibliographies in LaTeX