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Guidance on writing: person, passive/active voice...

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Description

Is there a preferred way to address users? Especially for tutorials where we want to give instructions to the reader. Guidance on commenting and explaining code: explanation in markdown above the code cell? below? general explanation in markdown only and implementation details as comments within the code? glossary terms, how do we know if a term should be explained in the notebook or in the gossary, or in both even. other potentially controversial topics?

cc @martinacantaro

It doesn't need to be very extensive and it can even be mostly links to other pages, but I think it will make both writing and reviewing notebooks easier

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Review the repository's Jupyter notebooks and their Markdown guidance to identify existing conventions for addressing readers, voice, code explanations, and glossary terms. Draft concise guidance or links covering these questions, then verify that it would help both notebook authors and reviewers.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, markdown, python
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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