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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... published in 1918 and rediscovered in 1957 when one of William Strunk's students, E. B. White, reminisced about the book in the New Yorker. For many lawyers, it epitomizes the craft of writing. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh ...
... published in 1918 and rediscovered in 1957 when one of William Strunk's students, E. B. White, reminisced about the book in the New Yorker. For many lawyers, it epitomizes the craft of writing. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh ...
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... publish and distribute political ideas is a tenant of the Constitution.” Another declared: “Treating AIDS sufferers and carriers as a suspect class would most likely not fly.” Still another informed her bewildered professor that “the ...
... publish and distribute political ideas is a tenant of the Constitution.” Another declared: “Treating AIDS sufferers and carriers as a suspect class would most likely not fly.” Still another informed her bewildered professor that “the ...
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... plain English requirement, as if the subject were new. In 1998, for example, the Office of Investor Education and Assistance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published A Plain DON'T MAKE IT LIKE IT WAS 17.
... plain English requirement, as if the subject were new. In 1998, for example, the Office of Investor Education and Assistance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published A Plain DON'T MAKE IT LIKE IT WAS 17.
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Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman. of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published A Plain English Handbook. In his preface to the 77-page guide, the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett confessed that after more than forty ...
Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman. of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published A Plain English Handbook. In his preface to the 77-page guide, the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett confessed that after more than forty ...
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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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