How to Address Wordiness The Paramedic Method How to Address Wordiness

As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to serve as a communication medium for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

Step 1. Underline the prepositional phrases As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to serve as a communication medium for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

Circle all the forms of “be” Step 2. As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to serve as a communication medium for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings. Circle all the forms of “be”

Step 3. Put a box around nominalizations As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to serve as a communication medium for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

Step 4. Write the nominalization as a simple verb “communicates, manipulates, disseminates” As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to serve as a communication medium for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

Step 4. Step 4. Write the nominalization as a simple verb “communicates, manipulates, disseminates” As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to communicate for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

Step 5. “Who is performing the action?” As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to communicate for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

“Who is performing the action?” Step 5. “Who is performing the action?” As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to communicate for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

Step 6. Keep the main clause at the beginning As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to communicate for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings.

Keep the main clause at the beginning Step 6. Keep the main clause at the beginning The conference is intended to communicate for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings, as a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data.

Eliminate all unnecessary words and phrases Step 7. Eliminate all unnecessary words and phrases The conference is intended to communicate for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings, as a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data.

Eliminate all unnecessary words and phrases Step 7. Eliminate all unnecessary words and phrases The conference is intended to communicate for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings, as a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data.

Result As a means of providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data, the conference is intended to serve as a communication medium for everyone involved in the manipulation and dissemination of research findings. (32 words) The conference communicates the manipulation and dissemination of research findings, providing scientists with appropriate tertiary data. (16 words)