Simplify Your Writing – Avoid These 44 Overused Words & Phrases

Writers Write is a writing resource. In this post, we suggest you avoid these 44 overused words and phrases in your writing.

Writing simply and clearly is essential in business, or any, writing. We write sentences to convey messages. If we want to communicate, we need to keep them short. We should avoid verbiage by using mostly verbs and nouns and by not using empty phrases and meaningless words like those in the Infographic.

Avoid using words to fill up space. Modifiers, qualifiers, and intensifiers (very, almost, nearly, quite) add nothing to our writing. Unnecessary adjectives and adverbs clutter up the page and put our readers to sleep.

We should also avoid using big words and empty phrases because we think they makes us sound clever. Redundancy is also a problem.

‘A document does not have more value because it is longer. Repeating information does not make it more important. Using jargon does not make the message more significant.’ (Source: 3 Ways To Write In Plain Language)

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Avoid These 44 Overused Words & Phrases

Here are 44 overused words and phrases to avoid when you write:

Source for Infographic: Grammar Check

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