Keep Your Articles Free of Fillers

Fillers are always a bad idea. If your fact or sentence does not support your topic sentence it shouldn’t be included in the paragraph, just as a paragraph belongs in an essay only if it supports your argument or purpose. Do not add phrases in your article just so you make your work longer. It is often better to say a lot with a few words than nothing with a lot of words.

Many of us become a word count slaves. We feel the need to add as much as possible in an article so we can draw in more readers or because we think it is interesting information. Adding excess information does not help to develop your paragraphs. Ask yourself if what you are writing adds to the document as a whole, if it doesn’t cut it out. You will most likely be able to tell if you have an unnecessary addition to your piece once you begin proof reading.