Hints to Scientific Writing:
  Reduce Wordiness by a Parenthetical Reference to Statistics

   This entire sentence is all about wordiness and disrupting the flow of the manuscript.  The information is not necessary to the reader's understanding of the manuscript but is needed to support the author's statement of no difference in the previous sentence.  Shorten this sentence, place in parentheses, and attach the parenthetical statement to the end of the previous sentence.  For example:

Similarly, home ranges did not differ between radiocollared and control (uncollared) deer (t=0.01,
            df=28,18, p>0.99; Figure 1).

The result is a sentence that is much less wordy, more concise, and focused on biology not statistics.

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