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For many writers, eliminating wordiness isn’t easy. Perhaps they’ve learned to “pad” their writing to meet a word count for a college paper, they’re struggling to find the right words, or they think that adding words makes their writing sound more formal or that their readers expect it. However, wordiness in business, scientific, and technical writing can confuse your readers, bury your...
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We recently had a question from a participant in our online course, "Technical Writing." As you may know. participants in all of our online courses receive feedback on their writing, and I'd shown her how to combine sentences to better illustrate the relationship between two sentences. She works in the financial industry which, as we all know, produces some difficult to read and understand documents (at...
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