Tight business writing leaves out unnecessary words. Our Business Writing That Counts! webinars can help you learn to choose words that make your writing concrete and avoid words that add nothing to your message or of value to readers. Consider these 5 empty words: Basically. Use of this word is wrong on many levels. First, if you are outlining basic information, there is no reason to rub your readers' faces in it. If it's basic, it should be so because you are writing at the