Effective Writing Practices for Conciseness
Learn how to enhance your writing by using the most effective words, eliminating unnecessary ones, and crafting deliberate phrases for maximum impact. Explore examples and guidelines from Patricia Minacori, a Senior Lecturer, to improve the conciseness and readability of your content.
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Plain English Exercises Patricia Minacori, Senior Lecturer
The goal of concise writing is to use the most effective words. Concise writing does not always have the fewest words, but it always uses the strongest ones. Writers often fill sentences with weak or unnecessary words that can be deleted or replaced. 2
Words and phrases should be deliberately chosen for the work they are doing. Words that don't accomplish enough should be fired. When only the most effective words remain, writing will be far more concise and readable. 3
1.1 Before High-quality learning environments are a necessary precondition for facilitation and enhancement of the ongoing learning process. 4
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2.1 Before If there are any points on which you require explanation or further particulars we shall be glad to furnish such additional details as may be required by telephone 6
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Before It is important that you shall read the notes, advice and information detailed opposite then complete the form overleaf (all sections) prior to its immediate return to the Council by way of the envelope provided. 8
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Before The politician talked about several of the merits of after-school programs in his speech 10
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Before Suzie believed but could not confirm that Billy had feelings of affection for her. 12
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Before Our Web site has made available many of the things you can use for making a decision on the best dentist. 14
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Before Working as a pupil under someone who develops photos was an experience that really helped me learn a lot. 16
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Before Many have made the wise observation that when a stone is in motion rolling down a hill or incline that that moving stone is not as likely to be covered all over with the kind of thick green moss that grows on stationary unmoving things and becomes a nuisance and suggests that those things haven t moved in a long time and probably won t move any time soon. 18
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Combine Sentences. Some information does not require a full sentence, and can easily be inserted into another sentence without losing any of its value. 20
Before Ludwig's castles are an astounding marriage of beauty and madness. By his death, he had commissioned three castles. 21
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Before The supposed crash of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico aroused interest in extraterrestrial life. This crash is rumored to have occurred in 1947. 23
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3.1 Before Your enquiry about the use of the entrance area at the library for the purpose of displaying posters and leaflets about Welfare and Supplementary Benefit rights, gives rise to the question of the provenance and authoritativeness of the material to be displayed. Posters and leaflets issued by the Central Office of Information, the Department of Health and Social Security and other authoritative bodies are usually displayed in libraries, but items of a disputatious or polemic kind, whilst not necessarily excluded, are considered individually. 25
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4.1 Where a professional accountant in public practice has requested explicit consent from a client and that consent has been refused by the client, the professional accountant shall decline to perform or shall discontinue professional services that would result in the conflict of interest; or shall terminate relevant relationships or dispose of relevant interests to eliminate the threat or reduce it to an acceptable level, such that consent can be obtained, after applying any additional safeguards if necessary 27
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6.1 If the threat created by a conflict of interest is not at an acceptable level, the professional accountant in business shall apply safeguards to eliminate the threat or reduce it to an acceptable level. If safeguards cannot reduce the threat to an acceptable level, the professional accountant shall decline to undertake or discontinue the professional activity that would result in the conflict of interest; or shall terminate the relevant relationships or dispose of relevant interests to eliminate the threat or reduce it to an acceptable level. 31
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