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Writers who heed this advice also avoid most of the common grammar pitfalls: run-on sentences, redundancies, wordiness, passive voice, and sentences ending with prepositions.

A Few Words on Few Words

Given its philosophical bent and comparative wordiness, Capriccio has been .

Capriccio

Learning these skills impacts the academic writing of students, helping them cultivate stronger voices and creativity and combat wordiness in their essays.

The writing space: a forum for the technological age

This writing handbook begins by outlining characteristics of effective business writing, then covers organizing business documents, paragraph development and sequencing, developing a persuasive argument, and enhancing readability, as well as avoiding the passive voice, taming abstract words, dealing with jargon and wordiness, and tone for various types of messages.

The Write Approach: Techniques for Effective Business Writing, 2nd Edition

Alas, her bitterness and a tendency towards wordiness may turn off some readers.

Mona Oikawa. Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment

Without loss of meaning, they have sensibly compressed needless repetition and reduced instances of wordiness, such as in passages on King Elinas's death (p.

Jean d'Arras, Melusine: or, the Noble History of Lusignan

He describes his steps as a path towards "fog-free writing," and includes solutions for wordiness, passive voice, excessive use of certain kinds of words (e.

Editor-proof your writing; 21 steps to the clear prose publishers and agents crave

He describes Acrolinx as a tool that authors can use to get feedback on the simple language problems, such as spelling and grammar, as well as style, wordiness of phrases, passive voice, and second- or third-person rules.

Acrolinx: an automatic wordsmith

WORDINESS has been in tremendous form since the turn of the year and has an excellent opportunity to bag a fourth consecutive victory at Lingfield.

Wordiness to make Headlines

A potential problem for international ands is the pic's wordiness.

I'm So Excited

However, the wordiness does demand close attention to keep up with the different threads and understand how they finally weave together.

Cool Pitt a big hit; FILM OF THE WEEK KILLING THEM SOFTLY (18)

For many students, who often complain about having to read even nineteenth-century English novels because of the wordiness of the writing style, the passage is more problematic, more challenging.