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