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Demonstration: Eliminating rambling

Demonstration: Eliminating rambling

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Demonstration: Eliminating rambling

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- [Instructor] Okay, and in this demonstration, I'm gonna focus on just keeping only what is worthwhile in the piece. We saw what was relevant. We took out anything that was irrelevant. And now, I'm gonna take out anything that I don't think is worthwhile. It's a bit of a more subtle point. And where I wanna start is with this particular paragraph here, because I think that contains information which is not really necessary. And in particular, this stuff about the gazette number 86 of 1980, because if we're thinking that this is an article that's for the general public in a newspaper, I don't think there's going to be that many people who really care what the number of that is and the gazette number. It's kind of getting too involved, too specific. And therefore, that particular point, I don't think is worthwhile. But the general point stands, but that particular part of the point doesn't. And so what I'm gonna do is make an edit to that. And I'm gonna say this Health and Nutrition…

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