COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH
Elements of Technical Writing
2005-2006
Redundancies
"Redundancy is an insidious form of wordiness. Some redundant words are modifiers that merely
repeat an idea already contained in the word being modified."
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Redundancy Substitutions:
absolutely essential essential
absolutely perfect perfect
actual experience experience
adding together adding
advance plan plan
overall plan plan
all of all
past history past
refer back to refer to