Writing Tip 9: Reducing Wordiness
If a journal caps your abstract at 250 words and yours runs to 290, you don’t need to say less — you need to say the same thing in fewer words.
What you will learn
- The one-line test for cutting a word: does the sentence still mean exactly the same thing without it?
- How to bring an over-length abstract back under the word cap without losing content
- Why AI-drafted text often needs more wordiness editing, not less
Free, self-paced, one sitting. Finish the quiz and you get a certificate.
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