Salem Lorot’s Reviews > Editor-Proof Your Writing: 21 Steps to the Clear Prose Publishers and Agents Crave > Status Update

" A "belt and suspenders man" is a person so cautious he uses two means to accomplish something when one is sufficient. He's redundant. Well, written redundancies do the same thing. All add fog and should be eliminated."

"Use your word processor's search function to find these giveaway words: arrive, make, place, put, and take. Be suspicious of words ending in "-ion" or "-tion," since they could be foggy-phrase giveaways."