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What is “redundancy”?: Difference between revisions
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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
" A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail, but that every word tell. If a writer fails to do this his paper may suffer from redundancy"(Grammar). | " A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail, but that every word tell. If a writer fails to do this his paper may suffer from redundancy"(Grammar). | ||
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== Avoiding Redundancy == | == Avoiding Redundancy == | ||