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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Eliminating Wordiness Exercise 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with revising writing by having students read and revise a passage to reduce redundancy and wordiness.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on concise language by eliminating empty phrases and redundant words. It offers a video showing poor communication due to redundancy and a slide show which lists common empty phrases and provides an exercise to help...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on writing more concisely and editing your text to make it more concise. It offers a slide show that presents 5 editing techniques and examples of each, and a video lesson of how to write summaries and how to write...
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Stanford University

Stanford Ency. Phiosophy: Deflationary Theory of Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
Sophisticated presentation from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of a variety of deflationary theories of truth. Begins with a simple explanation and examples, but soon enlists somewhat technical language to explain subtler...
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Writing for Business and Pleasure: Eliminate Wordiness to Write With Power

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This how-to site gives writing tips for business writing. Brief explanations are provided for how to revise writing to ensure that redundant pairs, redundant modifiers, redundance categories, meaningless modifiers, and wordy expressions...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language: Stating the Obvious: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over removing obvious information. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Concise Language: Stating the Obvious."
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Techniques: Eliminating Excess

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper to remove extraneous information.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces the concept of redundancy in writing. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Concise Language: Avoiding Redundancy."