TELS 3363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Concision, Jargon, Marine Biology
12 Aug 2015
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Read chapter 11 (editing for a professional style and tone) in your textbook, which provides detailed instructions for editing for conciseness. Worksheets link of our homepage and open the folder titled, concision and direct. Concision is the act of reducing the length of a passage, yet still conveying the important information from the passage. For example, instead of using a whole paragraph to introduce yourself, you might use only two sentences. Being concise also depends on being precise, which depends on clear thinking. Replace in spite of the fact that with although. Lots of words decreasing the amount of background noise would be an important thing to do because the coffee house is used for a place of study as well as an eating establishment. Fewer words decreasing background noise is important because the coffee house is used for study as well as for eating. Assignment instructions: using the guidelines above and in the textbook, condense the following examples.
