How to not write bad - Ben Yagoda 2013

Words - The single most common mistake is the most easily fixable mistake
How to not write wrong

Simply put, this is to clean up after yourself. Writing on computers leads to a category of sloppy error that was rare in typewriter days and probably nonexistent when people used pen on paper: forgetting to delete a word.

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“Policing the area,” as it were, is an aspect of attentiveness or mindfulness, and it’s not hard to do. So do it.