Writing Concisely

What is conciseness?

• blurry and strung out

• I have no idea

• when you pass out and then wake up

• clear and to the point

in place of the wordy expression, "it is my opinion that." what should you use?

• now, today

• I think (believe)

• certainty, surely

• for

in conciseness, can you delete words?

• yes

• no

what is an elliptical construction?

• one that deliberately omits words that can be understood from the context.

• I don't care

• unnecessary repetition

• a redundancy

can pronouns (relative) be deleted?

• yes

• no

when is repetition useful?

• never

• when it contributes to emphasis or coherence

does redundancy contribute to wordiness?

• yes

• no

you should avoid grammatical redundancy, as in

• double subjects

• double comparisons

• double negatives

• none of the above

as you edit a draft, you should

• delete words that add no significant meaning to adjacent words

• add bigger words

• replace wordy expressions with single words

when deleting a relative pronoun, you might have to make other changes to a sentnce

• true

• false