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\section{Small \section{Short  Rant About Figure Captions} Dear Liam and Emily: one or both of you have learned some bad habits when it comes to using and referencing figures and equations in LaTeX. One of the reasons to use LaTeX is that it does automatic numbering and updating of cross-references for figures and equations. That means if you do things properly, then when add, take away, or rearrange figures and equations, the numbering and referencing will still work. It might not seem important for a paper that is only a few pages long, but when it is your thesis or a major paper you have to proofread and revise again and again, you'll appreciate it more! In your drafts, you are actively disabling this, as shown in Figure \ref{fig:WrongWayToNumberFigures}. I have written you about this before, but I'm not sure I have properly conveyed its importance. Please therefore note this course is the one the department has designated as the course in which majors learn how to write in their discipline --- a college wide requirement ---- and that in physics, this currently means learning how to properly use LaTeX (in addition to clarity and content, of course). Learning how to make use of cross-referencing in is one of the things that will distinguish an `A' paper from a `B' paper in this course.