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The best writing doesn’t waste words. It employs words efficiently. The first TPS Fan to complete the sentence below as we believe it should be completed will win a NTD200 7-11 / Starbucks Gift Certificate. Another Starbucks certificate will be awarded to the first Fan to complete it in an alternate way that, in our estimation, also is effective. The explanation and the names of the winners will be published tomorrow on this TPS Fans page. Each brevity rule is contained in 10 Ways to Shorten & Strengthen Your Academic Paper and will be posted on the TPS Fan page as introduced.
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Rule # 5: Use imagery… An academic writer can tighten his paper, lower word count, and enable understanding by using universal images that communicate clearly and accurately. In the sentence below, the writer did not employ imagery where it was possible to do so. How can the sentence best be written shorter and stronger by use of imagery?
十大簡潔英文準則五：善用意象
學術文章引用眾所周知的意象能讓溝通更精確、文章更簡潔並減少字數，幫助讀者理解文章。下列句子並未在適當的地方善用意象，要如何使用意象，才能讓此句更精簡有力？

題目Contest Sentence:

“The F-100, an aircraft flown by air force pilots in five countries, shared the unpowered flight characteristics of other small-winged jet fighters: It was only capable of maintaining altitude for a short distance.”