Every piece of content needs to be edited to avoid common writing mistakes. Many often sacrifice clarity on the altar of sounding professional. The editors started to maintain a list of the more common transgressions. Here are the top 17 followed by their anti -wordiness, anti-fuzzy thinking, pro- brevity, pro-clarity equivalents:
1. Ways by which = ways
2. continues to be = Remains
3. In order to = To (especially at the beginning of a sentence)
4. There (are) will be times when = sometimes, At times
5. Despite the fact that = Although, Though
6. At which time = When
7. In spite of = Despite
8. When in comes to = In, when
9. The majority of = Most
10. A number of = some, few, several, various
11. When asked = Asked
12. Leverage (as verb) = Use (or out to use), Harness, Apply
13. The same level of = As much
14. While (if not being used to mean during or at the same time as) = Although or Though, whereas
15. Moving forward = Later, In the future, from now on, Hereafter
16. Centered around = centered of
17. Try and (verb) = Try to (verb)
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