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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 # 2: Avoid “It” Sentences … A trained academic writer succeeds by communicating thoughts succinctly, and sentence construction is another key to success. In the sentence below, the writer elected to begin with the word “it” as the subject of an impersonal verb. How can the sentence best be written shorter and stronger while retaining the meaning?

十大簡潔英文準則二：避免 It 作為句首

訓練有素的學術文章作者，能簡明扼要表達句意，成功的另一關鍵是適切的句構。下列句子中，作者以it為句首，卻使用無人稱動詞。要如何修改才能有效地縮短句子，加強語氣，並且維持原本句意呢？

題目Contest Sentence:

“It became clear that to rid the clamoring crowd of its most vocal spokesman would be to enhance the meeting’s effectiveness.”