Spotting redundant expressions

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problem right

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it's not a common mistake that we see a

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lot and you know maybe you think that

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you don't do this in your own writings

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but I'm going to share some examples of

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typical mistakes that I've seen when

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students have sent me their writings for

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correction so the first one nevertheless

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though it is necessary Etc so

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nevertheless and though are both linking

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words of contrast so putting BR them

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together in the same sentence is a type

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of tautology it's redundant to use both

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another example taking the aformentioned

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points previously discussed into

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consideration so you can see the

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redundancy there right the aformentioned

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points previously discussed if they are

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afor mentioned then they are by their

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nature previously discussed so it's

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completely unnecessary and incorrect

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again to repeat the same idea within the

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same sentence another common example is

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to sum up in a

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nutshell so this is in the conclusion

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perhaps of a less formal task because in

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a nutshell is is more more of an

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informal expression but to sum up and in

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a nutshell express the same idea right

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so put putting them in the same sentence

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is a form of topology and will lose you

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marks in a in an