1) Objectives of revising: for clarity, for conversational tone, for conciseness, for vigour and directness.
2) Keep the writing short and simple for clarity
3) Avoid legal terminology, technical words, and third-person construction to be conversational
4) Use active-voice sentences to avoid confusing negative expressions.
5) Avoid opening fillers, long lead-ins, redundancies, compound prepositions, and empty words to achieve conciseness.
6) Avoid using wordy noun phrase and trite phrase by transforming noun phrases to verbs to increase vigour.
7) Use parallelism, numbered and bulled lists, headings, and graphic techniques to increase readability.
8) Watch for spelling, grammar, punctuation, names, number, and format when proofread.
9) For important message, print a copy with double space and read twice. For the book chapter, long article, report, read third time.
10) Be open to criticism when evaluating messages through feedback.
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