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    This document provides tips for improving writing style such as limiting unnecessary words, employing whitespace, using short sentences and paragraphs, properly formatting lists, and adding headings. It suggests avoiding flabby expressions, long lead-ins, redundant phrases, empty words, wordiness and unclear writing. Lists should be numbered to show sequences and bulleted for non-chronological items, with consistent capitalization and punctuation. Headings add visual impact.

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    This document provides tips for improving writing style such as limiting unnecessary words, employing whitespace, using short sentences and paragraphs, properly formatting lists, and adding headings. It suggests avoiding flabby expressions, long lead-ins, redundant phrases, empty words, wordiness and unclear writing. Lists should be numbered to show sequences and bulleted for non-chronological items, with consistent capitalization and punctuation. Headings add visual impact.

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    1.

    Flabby Expressions

    2. Limiting Long Lead-Ins

    3. Dropping Unnecessary there is/are and it is/was Fillers


    4. Redundancies

    5. Empty Words
    6. Wordy and Unclear

    7. Trite Phrase
    8. Clichés and Slang

    9. Buried Verbs

    10. Excessive Exuberance


    Employing White Space

    short sentences (20 or fewer words) and short paragraphs (eight or fewer printed lines)

    each part of the divided paragraph has a topic sentence.

    Numbering and Bulleting Lists for Quick Comprehension

    - Numbered lists: Use for items that represent a sequence or reflect a numbering system.

    - Bulleted lists: Use to highlight items that don’t necessarily show a chronology

    - Capitalization: Capitalize the initial word of each line.

    - Punctuation: Add end punctuation only if the listed items are complete sentences.

    - Parallelism: Make all the lines consistent; for example, start each with a verb

    Adding Headings for Visual Impact

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