Write Concisely
Some people are stingy with money; others are stingy with time. Generally speaking, writers should be stingy with words, because one characteristic of good writing is conciseness.
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Avoid Business Writing Mumbo Jumbo
You don’t have to be a business writer to fall into mumbo jumbo, but business people are particularly prone. Find out how not to write like the average business person.
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Five Wordy Habits to Avoid
Adding words just to meet an assigned paper length is known as padding, and it’s a bad habit that we don’t want to encourage. Good writing is concise. Good writers don’t use more words than necessary. It doesn’t mean they skimp on details or creative phrasing, just that they normally look for the simplest, clearest way to express their meaning.
Here are five ways we let wordiness creep into our writing.
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