Concise writing also comes from thinking carefully about the smaller elements involved in writing. These include:
In each of the cases indicated here, think about how your writing can be made more direct and economical by the modifications suggested.
- Avoiding redundancy (e.g., “each and every”; “first and foremost”; “true and veridical”)
- Avoiding repetition (e.g., stating the same opinion more than once in a single section)
- Eliminating unnecessary qualifiers (e.g., “very”; “really”)
- Replacing phrases by a single word (e.g., “in light of the fact that…” by “because”)
- Keeping sentences as short as possible, and avoiding complex dependent clauses
 | The object of this chapter, which forms part of the second section of this dissertation and which begins the more analytical phase of this project, is to look at the evidence for the use of the phrase-initial adverbial ‘so’ as a marker of academic discourse. This chapter is very important in the overall work presented here due to the fact that it presents the part of the project in which a close analysis of evidence is carried out. |
 | This chapter (2.1) begins the analytical part of the project; it assesses evidence for the use of the phrase-initial adverbial ‘so’ as a marker of academic discourse. |
In each of the cases indicated here, think about how your writing can be made more direct and economical by the modifications suggested.
Universitat de Barcelona. Serveis Lingüístics
Darrera actualització: 13-6-2022
Recommended citation:
«Small matters» [en línia]. A: Llibre d’estil de la Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Serveis Lingüístics. <https://www.ub.edu/llibre-estil/criteri.php?id=3471> [consulta: 23 novembre 2024].
