Words you should excise from your writing in 2018
While many are making plans and resolutions for the new year, here are some trite phrases communicators should vow to avoid in the coming year and beyond.
You can count on two things in January: plenty of articles, news stories, and posts listing popular New Year’s resolutions and plenty of articles, news stories, and posts listing all the reasons people fail at keeping their New Year’s resolutions.
This can all lead one to surmise that New Year’s resolutions are a waste of time, but that would be folly.
It’s always worthwhile to sharpen your writing and editing skills, as many PR Daily readers will agree. If one of your goals for 2018 is to improve your writing, consider excising unnecessary words and phrases from your work.
Here are four groups of phrases that unnecessarily clog your writing:
1. Words so overused they’ve lost all meaning
2. Verbs that indicate laziness (and jargon)
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