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When writing for work or funding, chances are you must stay within a certain word limit. These two quick strategies can help you manage "excess weight" in your prose: Delete unnecessary prepositional phrases such as prior to, with regard to, on the basis that . . .How and why this works: Prepositions signal relationships in … Continue reading Instant Weight-Loss
Replaced by a robot…?
As a teacher of academic and professional writing, I often worked with students who were struggling with grammar and word-choice. Around 2014-15, students started asking whether it was worth using automatic writing evaluation (AWE) tools such as Grammarly. To test the tool, I doctored some of my own writing and ran it through a Grammarly … Continue reading Replaced by a robot…?
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