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Being Concise and Removing Redundancy

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Why is this chapter important? Being concise is not an option. Many journals, particularly widely-read ones such as Science and Nature, have severe restrictions on the number of words per article. The space they have available is precious.

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Wallwork, A. (2011). Being Concise and Removing Redundancy. In: English for Writing Research Papers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7922-3_5

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