Axes and scissors

Often there are times when writing is boring and can be hard to read because the author uses lots of words to say something that could have been said in a few words. We sometimes decide to put lots of words in our writing that are actually not needed.

Sometimes we need an 'axe' to go and cut away big chunks of our writing such as whole paragraphs. Other times we just need to trim our sentences with 'scissors' to ensure that there are no unnecessary words that the reader has to read.  A common word we often don't need is the word 'that'. Have a look at the below examples and quotes that we used to explore how we can use scissors.