What makes a sentence concise? You know it sounds good, concise sentences, to the point. Be wary though, for it is acceptable to be non-concise, just take a look at Ernest Hemingway.
I would like to be more concise when I want to be concise, so I studied that. I observed that sentences can be reconstructed to take out unnecessary words. Sentences that are in passive voice can be rearranged to destroy the was or is or have, giving power to a statement, making it concrete.
There are words intended to intensify writing but do the opposite, like very, really, and extremely.
There is also a giant list of common phrases that we place into our writing that can be eliminated that you should take a look at.
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