Table of Contents
Cutting Wordiness
�The less you write, the more
users read.�
Patterns of wordiness
Passive sentences
Patterns of wordiness
Redundancy
Repeated words
Repeated words
Repeated words
Synonyms
Which are the synonyms?
Which are the synonyms?
Unnecessary words
Filler words
Filler words
Filler adjectives and adverbs
Filler nouns
Unnecessary words
Which one preposition replaces each of these phrases?
Which one preposition replaces each of these phrases?
Use one word to replace many
Use one word to replace many
Writing Exercise
Writing Exercise (Answers)
Patterns of wordiness
Too much detail
Too much detail
Irrelevant detail
Irrelevant detail
Stating the obvious
Patterns of wordiness
Rewrite unnecessary prepositional phrases
Too many prepositional phrases
Which are the prepositional phrases?
Rewrite prepositional phrases
Noun stacks
Writing Exercise
Writing Exercise (Answers)
Patterns of wordiness
Nominalizations
Nominalizations
Typical nominalizations used in prepositional phrases
Four nominalization patterns
Rewrite nominalizations
Typical nominalizations used in prepositional phrases
Which are the nominalizations?
Which are the nominalizations?
Which are the nominalizations?
Writing Exercise
Writing Exercise (Answers)
Patterns of wordiness
Parallelism
Parallelism (Exercise)
Parallelism (Answer)
Parallelism
Parallelism (Exercise)
Parallelism (Answer)
Checklist: Patterns of wordiness
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