Name: _____________

Rewrite the following, focusing on emphasis, wordiness, and nominalizations.

The judiciary’s tendency to rewrite the Constitution is the biggest danger to the nation, in my opinion, at least.

A new political philosophy that could affect our society well into the twenty-first century may emerge in these studies.

There are limited opportunities for teachers to work with individual students in large American colleges and universities.


The challenge “even if you don’t understand the words, you can still make it more readable.” This, by the way, is why technical editors make more money than most other kinds of editors.

Mucosal and vascular permeability altered by a toxin elaborated by the vibrio is a current hypothesis to explain this kind of severe condition. Changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells, and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells are evidence in favor of this hypothesis. Hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut is believed to depend on altered capillary permeability.