The document provides several strategies for improving word choice in writing, including being careful when using unfamiliar words or synonyms, focusing on strong nouns and verbs before adjectives, using the slash/option technique to brainstorm word choices, avoiding repetition unless it is purposeful, writing your thesis in multiple ways, reading your writing aloud slowly, talking through your argument instead of reading it, and having an outsider point out any confusing words or sentences.

1. Strategies for successful word choice