Writing is funny. If you go back and look over what you typed you’ll often find you typed something more than once. Like that last sentence. Read it again.
If you didn’t read it again, you might have again missed that the word “typed” was in there twice. It was unnecessary, but I chose to insert it to make a point.
For years, I’ve joked about the Department of Redundancy Department as an arm of the government, churning out repeatable documents that don’t need to be generated. They publish something about a program or issue, then another agency duplicates the finding or the same agency puts out a similar document a year later. It’s pointless. We got it the first time. It becomes redundant after that.
The same holds true for writing. Repeating a word in a sentence is avoidable (other than basics like “a” and “the,” etc.). If you go back and look at the fourth and fifth sentences of this essay, what’s the redundant word there?
Writing redundantly writing (:-}) is caused by laziness. We want to put something out quickly, so we rap the keyboard and hit “send.” Take some extra time to go back over what you write and look for those words you repeat. Substitute something else. It will freshen your product. You’ll sound smarter. People will like your writing more.
If you didn’t read it again, you might have again missed that the word “typed” was in there twice. It was unnecessary, but I chose to insert it to make a point.
For years, I’ve joked about the Department of Redundancy Department as an arm of the government, churning out repeatable documents that don’t need to be generated. They publish something about a program or issue, then another agency duplicates the finding or the same agency puts out a similar document a year later. It’s pointless. We got it the first time. It becomes redundant after that.
The same holds true for writing. Repeating a word in a sentence is avoidable (other than basics like “a” and “the,” etc.). If you go back and look at the fourth and fifth sentences of this essay, what’s the redundant word there?
Writing redundantly writing (:-}) is caused by laziness. We want to put something out quickly, so we rap the keyboard and hit “send.” Take some extra time to go back over what you write and look for those words you repeat. Substitute something else. It will freshen your product. You’ll sound smarter. People will like your writing more.
