Thursday 3 December 2015

Cut, Cut, Cutting

I have found that with my critical review, sticking to the word count was a very difficult ordeal.

Having been out of an academic education for 5 years, the last time I was required to write academically was GCSE year and so I have had to mature a lot with my academic writing.

I wondered if anyone had some tips on how to cut down un-nessasary word counts?? I will list a few of mine and please feel free to comment:

1. Have confidence in your writing: I found a lot of my waffle was due to phrases like “I could argue this” and “this possibly could show”…  By cutting out the maybe’s and possibly’s my writing was more authoritative and direct.

2. Check for repeats: it is quite easy to repeat yourself across the specific sections in the critical review so ensuring you haven’t mentioned the same thing more than once is helpful.

3. Re-word a sentence: Sometimes by completely changing a sentence you can write the same thing with less words, by muddling around with the word order, cutting connectives and extra words can help reduce the word count.



Please feel free to help out and add more tips if you have had to go through and cut the word count.

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