There are tools to remove redundant verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. I like this tool: https://www.textunited.com/blog/shorten-text-to-be-a-faster-... HemingwayApp is also neat, if a little opinionated about what should be edited out. Some phrases only sound right in certain contexts, and I never liked that about academic papers, because they presume an ivory tower readership when infact their target audience could be any body of people