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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.
最佳的寫作，必須有效選用字句、惜字如金。TPS推出新專欄，請你寫出簡潔、流暢的詞彙/句子。題目刊登於下方，經TPS編輯教授評選為第1位最適解答的粉絲，可獲得統一超商/星巴克咖啡NTD200元的購物禮券；增設特別獎1名，獎項給予提出符合句意又別具創意之解答的粉絲。解答與獲獎的粉絲姓名，將於明天公佈於本TPS專頁。每一項簡潔準則，皆收錄於TPS新推出之「十大簡潔英文準則」，將定期刊登本專欄，敬請密切鎖定、先睹為快。

Rule # 9: Avoid redundant phrases … An academic writer can tighten his paper and sharply increase its readability by avoiding the use of words that repeat themselves. In the sentence below, the writer employed phrases that added nothing to the sentence but extra words. How can the sentence best be written shorter and stronger?
十大簡潔英文準則九：避免多餘詞句
寫作學術文章若能避免使用重複的詞句，能使文章更簡潔，且容易閱讀得多。以下的句子中，作者使用的詞句並未增加訊息，只是徒然增加字數。該如何修改，才能讓句子更精簡有力？

題目 Contest Sentence:

“By the end of the session, it was clear the speaker was a radical fanatic about neo-socialism and unlikely to cool down his ardor any time soon.”