Here are tips from one of my Writers In the Know workshops: (Picture below taken at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum)

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Use the Paramedic Method (originally developed by Richard Lanham in Revising Prose) to edit any kind of professional writing. Editing your professional writing using the Paramedic Method will make your prose easier to read. Sentences that are easy to read are more persuasive and more 
Professional writers understand the need for clear, concise prose. An industry standard for helping workplace writers achieve user-centered, persuasive, and clear prose is the Paramedic Method. When you use the Paramedic Method, you will reduce your word count by eliminating unnecessary words. The Paramedic Method also helps you activate your sentences by eliminating passive voice and redundancies. The Paramedic Method is an easy to learn, systematic way to make your sentences more persuasive and more user-centered.
Follow the seven steps below to improve the readability of your sentences.
The Paramedic Method for Editing Your Prose
Adapted from Richard Lanham
This method is designed to give your writing more punch, more power, more persuasion. It’s designed to make your prose more exciting to read. You’ll eliminate boring, sluggish sentences and unnecessary wordiness. Here are the steps:
 
Circle the prepositions (of, in, about, for, onto, into) Draw a box around the "is" verb forms Ask, "Where's the action?" and “Who is kicking whom?” Move the actor into the subject. Change the "kicking action" into a simple verb Eliminate any unnecessary slow wind-ups  
Step #1: Circle the prepositions. Prepositional phrases often create wordiness and some s-l-o-w reading. (around, at, by, for, from, in, of, on, over, outside, through, since, under, up, with, etc.)
 
Step #2: Draw a box around the “to be” verbs. This is a good way to catch passive voice construction that detracts from exciting, active prose. (am, is, are, was, were, etc.)
 
Step #3: Ask yourself, “Where’s the action?” and “Who is kicking whom?” Figure out who is actually performing the action in this sentence. Who or what is the main subject of that sentence? Revise the sentence to clearly show the actor in charge.
 
Step #4: Change the action into a simple verb. Now that you know who is doing the action (who is doing the kicking!), revise the sentence to give that actor a simple action verb.
 
Step #5: Eliminate the slow wind-ups at the beginning of sentences. “I believe that…” and “In my opinion,…” These kinds of beginnings aren’t necessary and they slow down the reader. Instead, jump right into the sentence. 
 
Eliminate any redundancies.https://wrd.as.uky.edu/worksheet-lanhams-paramedic-method-editing-exercise (12/27/2018)

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