Is this sentence awkward for an essay?

LoveTheBard
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:08:34 +0000

I agree that you should not worry about it.

Given that your reader will be doing a quick read, there are three or four things that are likely to happen: 1) they won’t notice; 2) they will semi-notice but assume that they misread; 3) they will notice but assume you had a typo and accidentally repeated the same word and didn’t catch it when proofreading; 4) they will spend time trying to figure out what you meant.

The last is the least likely possibility; I would place money on the first. Not a big deal.