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16 Tips on How to Reduce Word Counts and Write Concisely

16 Tips on How to Reduce Word Counts and Write Concisely

Have you ever finished drafting a one-pager, report, or social media profile only to find out that you’re hundreds of words or characters over your limit? Or maybe you’re not working with a word limit, but you get the sense

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Writing about setbacks in your personal statement

Writing about setbacks in your personal statement

If you’re preparing a personal statement for a med school, law school, grad school, or medical residency program, you may think that you should focus only on your successes. After all, if you’re trying to impress an admissions committee and

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6 things that make people weak writers (and what you can do about them)

6 things that make people weak writers (and what you can do about them)

If you think you’re a weak writer, you may think that there isn’t much you can do about it. After all, when it comes to being a strong writer, you either have what it takes or you don’t. Right? We

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Writing a medical school personal statement: Why it’s important to think about your reader

Writing a medical school personal statement: Why it’s important to think about your reader

When you write a personal statement for a medical school application, you’re writing for someone who’s going to make an important decision about your future based, in part, on what you’ve written. For this reason, it’s a good idea to

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10 tips for reducing your word count

10 tips for reducing your word count

Note: We’ve written a new version of this post with six extra tips. Read the new version.  Ever finish a draft of an essay, report, or proposal only to find out that you’re hundreds (or even thousands) of words over

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Commas matter: “Let’s eat grandma” doesn’t mean the same thing as “Let’s eat, grandma”

Can’t figure out why commas belong in certain places in sentences but not others? You’re not alone. In English, we use commas in many different ways, so their presence in (or absence from) a sentence may seem arbitrary. However, commas

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Writing Tip: “As well as” doesn’t mean the same thing as “and”

When you’re writing a sentence that already contains the word “and,” it can be tempting to use “as well as” instead of another “and.” You probably learned at some point in school or at work that you should avoid using

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Punctuation tip: Not all questions end with a question mark

Not every sentence that sounds like a question ends with a question mark. Sentences that do end with question marks are called direct questions — they are sentences that we could ask someone. For example, “Lisa, where are the cookies?”

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When to leave periods out: Part 1

For those of us who write in English on a regular basis, using periods is usually a pretty standard affair. We know that, in general, we need to place a period at the end of a sentence. In some cases,

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Writing concisely tip #6: Combine sentences

Sometimes our writing is wordy because we use more sentences than we need to express our thoughts clearly. Because each sentence needs to contain certain types of words (e.g., nouns, verbs, and prepositions) to be grammatical, breaking up related ideas

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