Communicating with Precision
Completion requirements
This is a nice guide for improving or "tightening up" your writing, ensuring clarity, concision, and directness, as described in the article. This is useful for any information exchange writing. Over the next week, note how often you use passive voice, are too wordy, or use cliché expressions or qualifiers.
Precise Wording
4. Avoid cluttered constructions.
This category includes redundancies, repetitions, and "there is/are" and "it is" constructions.
| Redundancies | ||
| combine/join |
fill |
unite |
| finish |
refer/return/revert |
emphasize/stress |
| examine (closely) | ||
| rely/depend |
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| plan |
protest |
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| estimate/approximate |
gather/assemble |
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| years |
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| in |
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