Wordy

It's good discipline to edit out unnecessary words in your writing. You don't want to bury your ideas in words that don't contribute to meaning. To avoid wordiness

• use concrete nouns and vivid verbs
• avoid empty words, such as "aspect," "case," "factor," "field," "kind," "situation," "thing," "type"
• substitute single words for wordy phrases (e.g., use "because," not "due to the fact that")
• cut out unnecessary repetition (e.g., "return again," cooperate together")
• avoid beginning too many sentences with "there is" or "it is " (or "there are," "there were," etc.)
• combine sentences to avoid repeating words.

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