The Lawyer's Guide to Writing WellUniversity of California Press, 2003 M01 13 - 287 páginas This eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-apply remedies that will make your writing readable. Complete with usage notes that address lawyers' most common errors, this well-organized book is both an invaluable tool for practicing lawyers and a sensible grounding for law students. This much-revised second edition contains a set of editing exercises (and a suggested revision key with explanations) to test your skill. This book is a definitive guide to becoming a better writer—and a better lawyer. |
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... Associate Dean for Academic Affairs , Professor of Law , and Director , The Writing Program New York Law School SECOND EDITION University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles / London . University of California Press Berkeley and ...
... Associate Dean for Academic Affairs , Professor of Law , and Director , The Writing Program New York Law School SECOND EDITION University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles / London . University of California Press Berkeley and ...
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... associates during the 1990s that they found it impossible to provide the one-on-one train- ing in writing and editing that had been customary until sometime in the 1960s. Government legal offices and smaller firms have little time and ...
... associates during the 1990s that they found it impossible to provide the one-on-one train- ing in writing and editing that had been customary until sometime in the 1960s. Government legal offices and smaller firms have little time and ...
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... associate at a midsized New York firm, which had hired us to tutor incoming lawyers. “We sell time, not paper.” He could not be more mistaken. Good lawyers may rightly measure the value of the paper they sell by the time it takes to put ...
... associate at a midsized New York firm, which had hired us to tutor incoming lawyers. “We sell time, not paper.” He could not be more mistaken. Good lawyers may rightly measure the value of the paper they sell by the time it takes to put ...
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... associate bragged about how well she and some of her colleagues wrote. Of her boss, she said, “He knows how to write; he knows the difference between that and which.” The “that-which” distinction is an occasional issue in English usage ...
... associate bragged about how well she and some of her colleagues wrote. Of her boss, she said, “He knows how to write; he knows the difference between that and which.” The “that-which” distinction is an occasional issue in English usage ...
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Contenido
THE PROCESS OF WRITING | 35 |
MANAGING YOUR PROSE | 77 |
NOTES | 199 |
USAGE NOTES | 209 |
AN EDITING CHECKLIST | 229 |
EDITING EXERCISES | 237 |
SUGGESTED REVISIONS TO EDITING EXERCISES | 241 |
REFERENCE WORKS | 249 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 257 |
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | 267 |
INDEX | 269 |
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