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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 # 10: Eliminate extraneous introductory phrases … An academic writer can tighten a paper and increase its readability by avoiding use of common phrases that add nothing essential to a thought or a sentence. In the sentence below, the writer employed such phrases. How can it best be written shorter and stronger?
十大簡潔英文準則十：刪除多餘的引介片語
有些常見的片語對概念或句子並沒有太大助益，學術寫作若能避免此類片語，可讓文章更加簡潔、容易閱讀。以下句子有多餘的片語，應該如何修改才能使句子更簡短有力？

題目 Contest Sentence:

“The facts of the matter are that the president is not particularly presidential and is poorly served by Trevor Chan, who is his vice president for life.”