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Unnecessary Words

By giacomo giammatteo
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By giacomo giammatteo
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Most writers use too many words, not from carelessness but because speech habits transfer to the page. Phrases like in order toand at this point in time feel natural, so they slip in and make readers work harder than they should.
Unnecessary Words fixes that.

Giacomo Giammatteo walks through the main sources of wordiness — wordy phrases, redundancies, filler words, hidden verbs, weak openings, prepositional overload, vague language, and more — using clear examples and direct comparisons that ...