![]() Get comfortable with deleting your writing.Reading your writing out loud helps (you’re more likely to catch errors than if you skim the page reading to yourself).If you’re revising your own work, you should be catching the places of redundant text parts.Redundancy is also usually a symptom of poor organization a lack of structure can lead to circular writing, because you don’t know where you’ve come from and you don’t have a clear sense of where you’re going. I often find myself reading prose that has the same idea presented in multiple ways – sometimes word for word, from one paragraph to the next! Regardless of how this happens, redundancy highlights the importance of taking a break from your work. You keep making the same point over and over again. People often assume the thesaurus will help them sound smarter, but instead leaves your reader thinking, “wow, she/he really loves her/his thesaurus.” Use fun words sparingly, and aim for clarity. Take opportunities to be creative, but not at the expense of clarity.When you’re over your word count on an abstract or conclusion section, look to cut sentence padding first, before you start cutting your cool ideas. ![]() ![]()
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