“Unlocking Your Writing Potential: Are You Making These 8 Surprising Mistakes?”
5. Unnecessary or ineffective repetition
Sometimes repetition is a good thing. When we’re trying to teach through writing, repetition can help the reader retain information. It can also emphasize a theme or symbol. The trick is to know the difference between effective and ineffective repetition, and this can happen with the content of a piece of writing or the language. The most frequent place you’ll see this is in first-person point of view where there are an abundance of sentences that start with “I” (it’s actually difficult not to use “I” frequently in first-person pieces). But other examples include using the same adjectives over and over (all the girls are pretty; all the guys are handsome; all the cars are fast) or repeating the same details and descriptions over and over (you only need to say she’s pretty once).
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