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Peer reviewedBush, Don – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1994
Discusses ways an editor can cut out words to help the reader understand quickly. Discusses dead wood, redundancy, redundancy in thought, smothered verbs, false precision, editing and academia, and making copy smoother. (SR)
Descriptors: Editing, Language Usage, Redundancy, Revision (Written Composition)
