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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... writing well / Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman . — 2nd ed . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-520-23472–3 ( cloth : alk . paper ) . — ISBN 0-520–23473–1 ( paper : alk . paper ) 1. Legal composition ...
... writing well / Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman . — 2nd ed . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-520-23472–3 ( cloth : alk . paper ) . — ISBN 0-520–23473–1 ( paper : alk . paper ) 1. Legal composition ...
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... legal writing but few were doing anything about it . Between October 1987 and June 1988 , we asked 650 people familiar with legal writing — practicing lawyers , judges , profes- sors , writing instructors , and journalists who report on ...
... legal writing but few were doing anything about it . Between October 1987 and June 1988 , we asked 650 people familiar with legal writing — practicing lawyers , judges , profes- sors , writing instructors , and journalists who report on ...
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... legal research; and no one in the legal world had then heard of the Internet. For all of the rapid improvement in communications technology since 1988, legal writing has improved little, if at all. Law offices around the country, busier ...
... legal research; and no one in the legal world had then heard of the Internet. For all of the rapid improvement in communications technology since 1988, legal writing has improved little, if at all. Law offices around the country, busier ...
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... legal writing is flabby, prolix, obscure, opaque, ungrammatical, dull, boring, redundant, disorganized, gray, dense, un- imaginative, impersonal, foggy, infirm, indistinct, stilted, arcane, con- fused, heavy-handed, jargon- and cliché ...
... legal writing is flabby, prolix, obscure, opaque, ungrammatical, dull, boring, redundant, disorganized, gray, dense, un- imaginative, impersonal, foggy, infirm, indistinct, stilted, arcane, con- fused, heavy-handed, jargon- and cliché ...
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... law throughout the country. Perhaps it is not a fatal disease but a wasting one: a canker if not a cancer. The consequences of poor legal writing are simple to state though difficult to prove: • It wastes the valuable time of judges ...
... law throughout the country. Perhaps it is not a fatal disease but a wasting one: a canker if not a cancer. The consequences of poor legal writing are simple to state though difficult to prove: • It wastes the valuable time of judges ...
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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