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4 Ways to Cut the Clutter From Your Business Writing Part 2 of 2 by Dianna Booher

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This content provides practical techniques for improving writing conciseness by eliminating unnecessary words and strengthening verb usage.

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another technique you may want to prime

the pump with what I really want to say

is that once you decide what comes out

and what goes into the document concise

phrasing can become challenging in my

experience in leading writing workshops

I've discovered that most people talk

better than they write if you're one of

those people try squeezing out the

unnecessary words with this starter sentence

sentence

what I really want to say is that and

then finish that thought then you can

always Circle back later and delete the

front part of that sentence what's left

will be a cleancut opening line for your

document another technique select strong

verbs don't spend two or three words to

prop up a weak verb from the beginning

you'll recognize weak verbs and weak

sentences that begin with there is there

are it is it was they seem there

are if you need an adverb an adverb of

course is a verb that most often ends in

ly if you need one of those to prop up

the verb just grab a stronger verb to

begin with in other words don't write a

sentence like this there seems to be

problems with this software that's eight

words when you could write this software

has buged

length in short say it and

stop intentional repetition adds

emphasis that's good unintentional

repetition and unnecessary words obscure

the message they add nothing but

length what are your techniques for

spotting the Clutter in your own writing

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