Abstract
Redundancies are common troublemakers in scientific communication. They come in various forms, some more obvious than others, but all of them unnecessary or even disturbing. Common redundancies include double negatives or doubling of words that have the same meaning (tautology).
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language
comprehensible to everyone.”
Albert Einstein
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Rogers, S.M. (2014). Redundancy and Jargon: Focusing on the Essentials. In: Mastering Scientific and Medical Writing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39446-1_6
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