Redundancy
rogersgeorge on March 13th, 2016
An important part of good expository writing is to be concise. That means no more words than necessary. The rule of thumb is, “If you can remove the word without changing the meaning, remove it.” I wrote about this before, but I’ve since I’ve been using comics lately to illustrate some points, here’s one , Tina’s Groove, about redundancy:
Sigh. The comic is even an example of itself. It’s there twice. You don’t need me to explain any of the redundancies, do you?
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