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Trimming Services: Reduce Word Count

So you've delivered all your thesis arguments, written all your thesis chapters and made important tweaks to your thesis, but there's still a problem: your thesis word count exceeds the maximum number of words allowed and you don't know how to reduce the number of words in your thesis. If this is so, you need to reduce your word count without disimproving your thesis. If you're experiencing this problem, Thesis Services' 'trimming' service can help you reduce your number of words while maintaining the essence of your thesis and often even improving it (see quotes right and below).

What Is Thesis 'Trimming'?

Trimming fundamentally involves reducing the number of words in your thesis without disimproving your thesis – usually because you've gone over the word count. However, there may be another cause for needing trimming. Note that Thesis Services defines trimming (in its glossary) as follows:

"Reducing the number of words in a thesis without losing the essence of the work to meet a specific word count limitation and/or to improve the writing and style."

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Therefore, it's not just about meeting your word count. After writing such an exhaustive piece of work, thesis writers sometimes see their thesis as being 'loose' or having 'flab', so they want their thesis 'tightened' and trimmed without losing its essence and key points. Thesis Services' trimming service can reduce your word count but also improve your style and develop your writing.

How Is Thesis 'Trimming' Achieved?

There's no specific formula to follow as people have different needs and each piece of writing has unique aspects, so it all depends on you and your thesis. However, trimming usually involves removing verbosity/excessive words, repetitions and redundancies but also tightening loose language and expressing sentences more succinctly while retaining essential elements. Thesis Serviceshas applied trimming/word count reduction services to millions of words over many years so can help you reduce your number of words in your thesis.

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

William Strunk

So if you need to reduce your word count and/or want to improve your writing style and develop your writing thesis, contact me now.