A second technique at the sentence level addresses an issue called too many words syndrome. This is where students use far too many words to convey an idea. Often on the first draft, people will use stream of consciousness writing. This is where whatever runs through your head comes out on the paper. However, when you do this approach, often twice as many words are used as needed, and the meaning gets lost. Often these sentences need to be improved. A simple way to improve them is to look for anything that's in there that's unnecessary and cut it out. Then reread the sentence and see if the original meaning is still there. Sometimes you have to reorder the sentence in order to do this. Let me show you an example. This is our starting sentence. The first to go is this phrase. It is totally unnecessary. Without it, the sentence still functions perfectly. It is very common to state something as a fact, but really, it's completely redundant. It's to go is the word because. Because it's a terrible way to start a sentence. So let's move it to the middle and change it to so. Here's another phrase that we don't really need. If we cut it out, the sentence still functions and it still sounds fine. Can we go further? Yes. Let's get rid of the word so. Let's look for some other changes we can make. Not bad. We've cut out about two-thirds of the words used in the sentence and have kept all of the original meaning. You could probably push it further. We may also improve the sentence by looking at the sentences that surrounded it and using the Fission and Fusion process. An easy way to do the Fission process on a computer is to separate out each sentence and isolate it by itself as if it were its own paragraph. Break it into its meaningful components. Next, comes Fusion. Bringing together ideas from different areas. You have several options here. One, you can condense a sentence into a word or two and embed it in a previous sentence. Two, you can create a new sentence to enrich or enhance an idea of one of the sentences that you already wrote. Three, you can reorder the components so that the most important point comes first. You can also reword sections, rephrase them or choose different words. Finally, bring all of the sentences back together into a new paragraph.