Omit needless words.(grammar slammer)

Writing! | January 1, 2005 | Copyright

It is highly recommended that you omit and refrain from using an abundance of extraneous, nonessential, and needless words in your writing .

William Strunk Jr. said it perfectly almost a century ago in his classic handbook on writing, The Elements of Style:

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat ...

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