Do not use tautologies when you write to avoid being redundant.
A tatulogy is needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word. In writing, a tautlogy is often found as a pair of synomous words. For example, "cash money."
Read your manuscript carefully looking for double noun combinations or double adjective combinations. If the two words mean the same thing, remove one of them.
Note the obvious redundancies below that could be corrected by removing one of the paired words:
In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B. Du Bois poured so much of his blindingly incandescent soul into his writings that no single volume could ever contain all of his words or works. In fact, had not the his
