The tighten wordy sentences is not necessarily wordy, nor are short sentences always concise. The reason the teacher say to have minimum page is to have short and clear sentences. The more you tighten sentences the more you get organization paper. For example, repeating the same line over and over it is necessary thing to do that for a paper. There is something call wordy it means that to over saying it and if there is stuff that you need to delete to make it more clearer for the reader to understand and make it pretty short not extra with writing.