- identify writing with redundancy and unnecessary repetition
- revise a memo for conciseness
- avoid redundancy and repetition of words
- cut empty or inflated structures
- use simple structures to achieve conciseness
Answer key 1
Answer key 2
Task 2: Read "How to lose 'fat' in your writing" (strategies for writing concisely) and fill out the blanks.
Task 3: Apply the rules you learned to revising this sample memo. Check the revised version.
Homework: Complete Exercise 6 on page 67, Roebuck (our main textbook) and register for http://wordandphrase.info/frequencyList.asp
