Writing to a specified length

[Simon]

This is something that many people find very hard, but saying everything you want to say within a fixed amount of space is a valuable skill. If you would like more examples, then send me a fragment of your writing (no more than 1000 words) and I’ll show you how to reduce the length.

Send examples by email, in an editable format (Latex, Pages, Word, RTF, or plain text).

[Simon]

Here’s an example of reducing the word count -the first page shows the original (thanks to the anonymous student who contributed this example) and the second page is my edit. The constraint here was word count, and not space.

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[Simon]

Here’s a paper on which I am a co-author, to give an example of reducing both the word count and the amount of space (from nearly 5 pages down to 4 pages), as well as making editorial improvements to the text.

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[Simon]

Here’s another example of a paper, before and after my editing pass. The target length was 4 pages of text and 1 page of references.

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