Cleaning Up Your Sentences

Eliminating redundancies

The one and only thing that bothers and irritates me is the recycling of redundant words in written documents. While some redundancies are clearly obvious, other redundancies may be secretly obfuscated by the writer's choice of selected words.

Documentation should only include what will further the reader's knowledge. Redundancies don't usually affect reader comprehension but they do increase sentence length with needless verbiage. Get rid of them. It makes for better writing in general and leaves no room for ambiguity.

I'd rewrite the first paragraph in this topic as follows:

The one thing that bothers me is the use of redundant words in documents. While some redundancies are obvious, other redundancies may be obfuscated by the writer's choice of words.