COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Elements of Technical Writing
2005-2006

  • Do not begin a sentence with numerals
    1. A word with the first letter capitalized is the signal to the reader of the start of the sentence.
    2. Either rewrite the number in words or rewrite the sentence so that it no longer begins with a number. 
       
 Two thousand test subjects participated in the experiment.  Don't use - 2,000 test subjects...