Simplifying your Writing

We will discuss simplifying your writing in class. Some of the following are helps for you as you write; some of them are helps for me while we learn about this tonight. But all of them are good.

This link goes to a webpage with an embedded video. It is science writing based, but the information given in the video is useful to everyone writing about anything. And bonus, it's only 3 minutes long.
http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/careers/college-to-career/video/simplify-sentences.html

This one gives a concise review of wordiness.
http://www.suu.edu/hss/english/writingcenter/pdf/updated/tipsheet_wordiness.pdf

Here is a blog that gives 5 tips for simplifying your writing.
http://gettingpastpr.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/5-ways-to-simplify-your-writing/

Here are the sentences we will use in class to practice wordiness.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/6/9/24

This one gives some examples on passive voice and wordiness.
http://writingcenter.unlv.edu/writing/wordiness.html