Then, sit down to write your paper with your reader in mind. Some writers, in an effort to make a page limit, will be wordy on purpose this tactic will be obvious to the reader, and most instructors will be less than impressed. That handout has some information about page lengths and instructor's expectations you may not have considered. If you are still way off on page length and that handout hasn't helped you, you may want to talk to your instructor. Wordy constructions such as cliches, qualifiers, and redundant pairs are easy to fix, once you recognize your tendency to use them.
Cliches stand in for more precise descriptions of something.
Slow down and write exactly, precisely what you mean. The reason for the failure of the economic system of the island was the inability of Gilligan in finding adequate resources without incurring expenses at the hands of the headhunters on the other side of the island. Locate this problem by circling all of the prepositional phrases in your paper. Correct this problem by reading the sentence, looking away from it, and writing or saying out loud what you meant when you wrote the sentence. Replace the first sentence with your new sentence.