Sometimes we make the fault flaw of becoming too attached to certain
ways that we've said it.
Maybe this writer really loves the way here she wrote it the first time.
Also really loves it the second time, also loves the third time and
can't make a choice.
When that happens what I suggest is that you just take those sentences, and
don't delete them.
But just move them to another document for another time for
another writing project so you can have the beautiful sentence that you had
written but you don't have to have redundancy of ideas.
Another aspect of concise writing that you'll want
to be making choices about is elevated phrases and language.
And this is particularly something to be thinking about in
the context of academic writing where students maybe
are hoping to write to sound smart or to impress somebody and so
they'll use what they think of as academic sounding language or
If you have, if you're trying to reach two pages,
you kind of spread out your ideas, using words as filler words.
It's not the best idea, because as readers you kind of know,
when you see a filler word or an elevated language, so
here are three of the common ones that you might notice.
At the present time.
You could just write now.
[LAUGH] Due to the fact that, you could just right because.
The reason for is another because, or perhaps, why.
You don't have to sound smart, you should just trust that you are smart and
that your ideas are important enough that they are going to make a difference.
Not in that necessarily the smart sounding phrases that you use.
One another aspect of concise writing that you might want to be
thinking about is unneeded qualifiers.
Such as I am really excited to read your writing.
Your feedback is absolutely essential or
learning how to write more concisely can be somewhat helpful.