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Editing Repetitive Words

Editing is part of the writing process and is typically something that students avoid or neglect to do when writing a paper. Before eginning read your paper silently and loo! for words that you notice are eing overused within your paper and write them down. "hings to loo! for may e nouns and ad#ectives$ you may want to loo! at your thesis statement as well and see if the topic of your thesis is a word that you use fre%uently or over use. 5 words that you think are over used &. 2. '. (. ). *sing +ex"utor generate a !ey word list from your paper. ,ompare this list to the ) words that you thought you have over used. "here should e some crossover etween your list and the !eyword list generated. -f your list of words that you have generated fall within the top &. words from this word list then use those as your words to analy/e and edit. -f not ta!e three of the words from the list you have generated with +ex "utor and the top two from the list that you generated. LexTutor 10 Keywords &. 2. '. (. ). 5 overused words &. 2. '. (. ). 0. 1. 2. 3. &..

4ith your list of words loo! at the word themselves as they occur in your paper using Ant,onc v'.2. 5earch for your repetitive words and then view them as they occur within the text y clic!ing on the word and this should change over to the file view ta . ,opy and paste each sentence that uses this word into a new document. -f it appears multiple times in a paragraph #ust copy the entire paragraph. *sing the same practices from the preactivity edit each of your paragraphs and sentences and eliminate the over used word as much as you can while !eeping the meaning of your sentence.

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