Avoidingwordiness KeyTerms conciseness简洁expletiveconstruction虚词结构passiveconstruction被动结构 redundancy赘语wordiness冗词赘句 MainContents Eliminatingwordystructures Eliminatingunneededwords Eliminatingunnecessary repetition DifficultPoints 1.Decidingwhenusingthepassivevoiceisunnecessary 2.Recognizingandavoidingemptywordsor...
and conciseness in scientific writing is rooted in Sprat's call for a "mathematical plainness," i.e., for presenting "so many things, almost in an equal number of words." As Cornell biologist Antoinette M. Wilkinson notes: "Wordiness, whether through redundancy, tautology, or circumlocution, ...
Wilkinson notes: "Wordiness, whether through redundancy, tautology, or circumlocution, obstructs the clear presentation of the research findings and concepts, and wastes the reader's time." I will discuss a few...