Here are some tips on avoiding common redundancies.
Here are some thoughts to revisit on hitting a consistent tone with more casual or more formal language, including contractions.
And here is the big but pretty simple secret on How To Avoid Grammar Mistakes (cue heroic music).
The article above refers to "the manual," which used to be one of any number of actual books. These days, it's more likely an online source. The ones I recommend are the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), the University of Illinois Center for Writing Studies Grammar Handbook, and Grammar Girl (with Grammar Girl, there's not one great central location to explore, but if you type in any grammar issue such as "comma splice" or "punctuation quotation marks" and "grammar girl," you're likely to come up with a relevant, helpful, and witty article).
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