Of the quick help boxes, I found the one about not adding to much to be the most helpful. It is easy to add more and more, thinking it will help your paper, however sometimes less is more. As for empty words, I found that I tend to use them (as I just did) in order to make up space for myself. It is difficult to write when you have to have so many words yet so many more are excluded from making the paper the best it can be. (That is how I see it.) I find my tendency to use empty words to be alright, just not overdone to where you know they are empty words. They seem to fit in with the rest of the paper, and make it sound smarter and all around better.
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