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Nature 446, 725 (12 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446725c; Published online 11 April 2007
Increasing prose quality by decreasing word repetition
Cheryl Strauss1
- Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, 301 Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
'Increase' and 'decrease' are serviceable English words, so why is it my mission to winnow them from the prose that I edit daily? As a technical editor in a university department, I do not demand poetry from my writers; scientific accuracy and logical flow are paramount.
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