Getting Your Writing into Fighting Shape

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Presentation for tech writing course on making writing concise and precise.

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Getting Your Writing into Fighting Shape

Redundancy

“Zeroes”

Unnecessary Passive Voice

CONCEPT 1: BEING CONCISE

Wordiness means using unnecessary words.

Wordiness is a word that is often used by many people to express the idea that something that was written by someone in a larger number of words could have been expressed in a smaller number of words.

CONCEPT 2: BEING PRECISE