Grammatically Correct: The writer's essential guide to punctuation ...

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all situations. Therefore, researchers must be careful to select a test that
is appropriate for their specific situation.
Note: The advice on avoiding redundancies should not be taken
to mean that you should never restate anything. In many forms of
writing, summaries or recaps at the end of a chapter are suitable.
In long works, or in books that are not expected to be read cover
to cover, it may be appropriate to repeat important information
wherever it is relevant. Just be certain that you have a sound rationale
for putting down anything that has been explained elsewhere.
AVOIDING OVERUSE OF A WORD
A form of redundancy that can be particularly annoying to your
readers is to have the same word appear an inordinate number of
times. Sometimes writers are so intent on emphasizing an important
term or concept that they use it to death, to the point where it is
more distracting than informative.
Strategies to get around this include using pronouns, synonyms
and elliptical constructions, or dropping unnecessary references
altogether. If you are having a hard time coming up with synonyms,
remember that a thesaurus can be an invaluable tool.
EXAMPLE 1
The family-oriented approach to medical care involves recognizing
that an ailment of one family member will have an impact on all family
members. A family is continually subject to both the inner pressures
coming from its own members and to outer pressures that affect family
members. A serious illness of one of its members increases both the
internal and external demands placed on the family. Internally, the illness
of a family member forces an adaptation by other family members of
their roles and expectations. Externally, in this age of specialized medicine,
a family member's illness typically demands interaction with multiple
health care settings and personnel. Thus, a key focus of family assessment
in health-related research and practice must be on family stress and
coping.
This passage, just six sentences long, contains the word family
eleven times and member (or members) eight times. These counts
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