One of my favorite rules from Strunk & White’s “The Elements of Style” is this one: OMIT NEEDLESS WORDS. I make it a goal in my writing to say things as succinctly as possible. Mark Twain’s great quote, “If you see an adverb, kill it,” is one of my favorite writing quotes of all time. In order to gain more clarity in your writing, I’ve come up with five things to strike immediately. Your writing will improve for having eliminated these crutches from your work. “Being that.” For example, whenever you write something like this: “Being that I am twenty-five years old, I decided to switch jobs. “Being that” has,…