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1. Revision takes place during and after preparing the first draft.
2. The following sentence is an example of hedging: Sams record as vice-president of the information systems club shows that he is capable of handling the position.
3. The following sentence imposes parallelism: Adams responsibilities each Friday afternoon include running the system-usage program, printing three copies, and to take the copies to appropriate managers.
4. This sentence contains a dangling modifier: Working as quickly as possible, the budget was soon ready.

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5. Rewriting and editing for conciseness means examining every word you put on paper.
6. Longer words are generally more vivid than short ones.
7. By rewriting sentences that begin with There are or It is, the writer should be able to shorten the sentence.
8. The uniformity of line length in justified type is usually considered easier to read than flush-left, ragged-right type.

9. Sans serif typefaces are commonly used for long blocks of text because they are easier to read than serif typefaces.

One key strength of todays software functions is that spell checkers and grammar checkers take the place of a writers good editing skills