Professional Style & Editing Table of Contents Professional Editing & Style plain language movement developmental substantive copyediting Clarity single meanings connotations plain language jargon & acronyms clichés generalizations unclear pronouns unclear modifiers Conciseness intro conciseness sample sentences fillers circumlocutions canned phrases starters passive voice nouning weak verbs obviousness repetition/redundancy simple one-word verbs fewer words & syllables Parallelism what is parallelism explanation sentence examples list examples practice more Professional Editing & Style Tools