Eliminating Wordiness: This quiz was prepared by Michael Dolan, a student in Professor Karyn Hollis's Tutor Training course at Villanova University. Directions: Click on "The sentence, please!" and a sentence will appear in the top text-area. Try to eliminate redundant statements and useless 220 CHAPTER 22 WORDINESS WORDINESS exercise 1 DIRECTIONS: Correct wordiness errors in the following exercises. Be careful not to change the meaning of the original sentences. Some may be correct. 1. Arthur asked the bald-headed man if he polished his head. 2. To save money, Eleanor had a combination of bologna sandwich and potato chips for dinner. View Lab Report - Eliminating-Wordiness.pdf from CHEM 112A at Queens University. Student Academic Success Services: Learning Strategies and the Writing Centre Eliminating Wordiness 1. Avoid using a The goal of this handout is to help you to find and eliminate unnecessary words or phrases in your writing during the editing stage of the writing process. By eliminating wordiness, you can Clarify your meaning. Strengthen your prose, making it sound more authoritative and confident. Eliminating Wordiness What is Wordiness? Wordiness is the tendency to use more words than necessary. This can make sentences confusing, obscuring meaning, slowing down the reader, and distracting from the overall message. Exercises for Legal Writers II: Editing for Wordiness by Scott Fruehwald I. Edit Wordy Expressions. A major problem with much writing is wordiness-using several words when one will do. A lawyer can often improve his or her writing considerably just by paring unnecessary words. Exercise 2-1 Edit the following sentences for wordiness. 1. I created the following exercises to complement the 14 techniques of concise writing that I present in Chapter 1, "Economy," of my book, Keys to Great Writing. The following techniques will help you eliminate wordiness in your writing. Each technique is accompanied by three sentences for you to revise. Edit for patterns of wordiness. 1. (Eliminating Wordiness & Redundancy) Wordiness and redundancy (unnecessary repetition of words/ideas) can be distracting and confusing. Combining sentences and cutting superfluous wording in the process is a great method for not only eliminating these issues, but also producing more complex and compound sentences. Good writing requires fewer words, not more. To get a higher score on the IELTS or TOEFL, you need to say as much as possible within a limited number of words. In this essay, we look at how to Redundancy and Wordiness Some ACT English Test questions may ask you to identify or eliminate redundancy or unnecessary wordiness within sentences. Redundancy is the unnecessary repetition of ideas. Wordiness is the use of several words when a few can express the same idea more clearly and concisely. On the sentence level, in general, less is more. Exercise : Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 3 Revise the following passage, avoiding wordiness and undesirable repetition. A large number of people enjoy reading murder mysteries regularly. As a rule, these people are not themselves murderers, nor would these people really ever enjoy seeing someone commit an actual Edit the following sentences for wordiness. 1. Jill was impressed by Travis due to the fact that he won the difficult competition. 2. It is vital, when you have chosen to study mathematics as a life goal, to be current. 3. Derek's is the exact same version as Anna. Edit the following sentenc