Cutting Wordiness

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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

Author: Karin Gallagher

Email: kgallag@rpbourret.com

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