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Are you writing more than is needed? Do you use phrases like past history or foreign exports? If so, you come by it honestly. Our teachers told us to paint a picture; make sure the audience can envision the scene. However, if you wax eloquently in your business writing, you lose that reader to another letter, e-mail or attention grabber. To keep your readers from suffering superfluous surplus:
- Streamline your writing. If you are discussing the basic fundamentals or the loud crash, slash the extras. One word often does it.
- Weed out that aloof-sounding, verbose wording of the past. Replace in order to with to. Use if rather than in the event that.
- Eliminate modifiers like very, more, absolutely, etc. unless you really need to express an extreme.
By keeping wording concise, clean and simple, you increase your chances of the reader's actually getting your message.
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