I suggest everyone use one of many popular & excellent tools to check your professional articles for excessive & unnecessary words & long or hard to read sentences, for example here are some amazingly free tools I really enjoy:

Web App: http://beta.hemingwayapp.com/

VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=travisth... (This uses open source libraries you can utilize to create your own version if you don't use VS Code)