Delete Redundant Information

Instead of … Use …
10 hours in duration 10 hours
Ranging from 5 to 9 5 – 9
… and … are found to be in agreement … agrees with …
Give consideration to … Consider …
… are considered to be … considered, … are
Table 1: Many phrases contain redundant information which can be deleted.

1 The colonies were small in size, blue in color and oval in shape.

2 The colonies were small, blue and oval.

… small, blue, oval colonies.

3 Bear vocalisations were recorded for a period of 10 hours in duration.

4 Bear vocalisations were recorded for 10 hours.