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Day 85: Remove cliché redundancies.
Common speech patterns contain many redundancies. When we use them to write, we create wordy, inflated documents. To communicate effectively and directly, we remove the unnecessary words and simply write what we mean. Consider these wordy phrases and their revisions.
if it is determined that can be written if
actually, in reality can be written actually or in reality (actually and in reality mean the same thing, and both are usually unnecessary.)
practice simulation can be written practice or simulation (practice and simulation mean the same thing, in most cases. In cases where they don’t mean exactly the same thing, use the one that is most appropriate, not both.)
critically necessary can be written necessary
Consider the words you write and ask yourself if you are saying the same thing twice. If you are, then remove the unnecessary words.
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Here’s a sentence based on a document we edited.
“Children need the dexterity to perform the motor skills necessary for legible handwriting.”
“Dexterity” means having the motor skills to perform some task, so this sentence has a redundancy. When we remove the redundancy, the sentence can be revised in two ways.
“Children need the dexterity necessary for legible handwriting.”
“Children need the motor skills necessary to write legibly.”
This can be further reduced because “need” and “necessary” imply the same meaning. Now we have this revision:
“Children need the motor skills to write legibly.”