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Nominalisation
Nominalisation is the process of turning verbs into nouns. Verbs are action words and drive your writing along. Turning too many verbs into nouns can make your writing clunky and cumbersome.
Look out for too many words ending in: -tion, -ment, -ance, -ence, -ity, -ness, -ment, or -ism.
See if you can re-write any of your sentences using the verb form rather than the noun.
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Sword, H. (2012). Stylish Academic Writing. Cumberland, RI, USA: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.com (p. 61).
