Hello, and welcome to technique six. At the beginning of this particular strategy, we talked about words and the need to cut down unnecessary words to streamline and compress your piece. Remember that cutting out unnecessary words rewording things and more precise and clarifying ways and making every sentence in every word in your sentence, do useful work, and if it's not doing useful work to cut it. That's part of the strategy here as well. One way to look at it, I use writing as a train a train as a metaphor for writing. And picture it this way, if you have a train with an engine, or maybe a couple of engines, if you've got a long train, and you've got boxcars full of goods that are being shipped across the country, for people to use, maybe you've got some coal and some grain and stuff An oil or something like that, just different things that are used in society.

And let's say that you also have some empty box cars, they're just cars, and they're not really doing anything useful. And so that engine is pulling that along. And we're trying to get those things across the country so that they can be sold and shipped and used and consumed, whatever needs to be done to them. And people need those things. And so if you add those extra cars, it waits down the train, and it makes it longer and it makes it slower, it constipated in a sense. And so if you cut those, take those cars out and cut those unnecessary words, you're streamlining it, making it more efficient, it moves faster, more like a bullet train, and it's more efficient and it can get to where it needs to go faster.

Plus, it's not using as much fuel to do so. So it's easier for the reader to get through it. And so, four strategies, techniques six and strategy one, it says cut words that qualify perceptions, conditions and situations. The explanation here is qualifiers weaken tone and what are down style, cut them when they are implied in another word or add no meaning to the sentence. I think you're starting to see a pattern here. If something is implied, in other words or in other places in the Senate, then you don't need to add it in another way.

Now, that doesn't mean don't be clear, and that doesn't mean don't say what you need to say. And just cut to the point that you're saying see spot run, Jane jumped in pool. Of course, you want to include all the words that you need to include here. So I'm not talking about over cutting, but any words that are not necessary, such as little little qualifiers, for example. Little is a qualifier. That's an example of one other types of qualifiers would be kind of like, you know, maybe art to sort of the Things are usually not necessary.

They usually don't add any meaning to it a lot of times when we speak. And this is especially true for women, but it's true for everyone. And there's actually studies that show that women use more qualifiers than men. But it's basically, they're used sometimes to be polite, like someone will say, Do you like my dress, and then you say, I kind of don't think that's the best color for you. The red isn't doesn't go well with your skin and your hair. I think blue and green look better for you kind of, that's a way of sort of whitening, something that might hurt somebody's feelings.

So we say those things in real life, but when we're writing, a lot of times, they're really not necessary. An example of that. qualifiers, like I said, we can tone What are down style and they don't add any new meaning to the sentence. In most cases. I kind of want to adopt that little orange kitten. A correction I want to adopt that orange kitten We know kittens are small.

So you don't have to say little and kind of doesn't add anything to the sense of just say I want to adopt that orange kitten. Another example would be Ethan is a very good cello player, and he pretty much beat the competition. If Ethan is awesome, then just say so Ethan is an awesome cello player and he beat the competition. If he's just sort of good than it, you might say Ethan is sort of good, but it'd be sort of good, he probably didn't beat the competition. Ethan is a great cello player and he won first place might be another way to say that. And also the second two sentences, clarify exactly what's going on in that situation.

So they're not as vague. So not only do these changes that you make to your writing in these situations, clarify meaning, but they also make the writing more precise. And so that is, make sure that you cut that you cut Words that qualify perceptions, conditions and situations where they're not necessary. If they don't add anything new to the sentence then just cut them out.