Redundant phrases are bad habits just waiting to take control of your writing. Beware.
“Vigorous writing is concise. 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 and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.”
— William Strunk Jr. in Elements of Style
The following websites provide simple, useful tips to improve your writing.
