8.6 Revising for Clarity and Concision

Notes

Good professional and personal writing is revised.

• Cut wordiness: "due to the fact that" becomes "because."
• Prefer active voice ("I organized the event") to passive ("The event was organized by me") when you want to show action.
• Check tone, grammar, spelling and consistency of tense.
• Read aloud; ask someone else to read it; revise more than once.
• Remove filler such as "very," "really" and "in order to" when it adds nothing.