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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... style and usage . . " 2 Remarkably , 160 students - just under half the first - year class - enrolled for this noncredit course . They were divided into two sections , an impossibly high number of students . Writing needs to be taught ...
... style and usage . . " 2 Remarkably , 160 students - just under half the first - year class - enrolled for this noncredit course . They were divided into two sections , an impossibly high number of students . Writing needs to be taught ...
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... style or intelli- gibility of documents they read, though not for want of opportunity. Perhaps judges are reluctant to do so because they know their own prose could be ridiculed next. In admonishing the lawyers, Justice Klein rambled a ...
... style or intelli- gibility of documents they read, though not for want of opportunity. Perhaps judges are reluctant to do so because they know their own prose could be ridiculed next. In admonishing the lawyers, Justice Klein rambled a ...
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... Style, that venerable volume on good usage, was 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 ...
... Style, that venerable volume on good usage, was 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 ...
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... Style is a good “little book,” as Strunk himself called it in 1919 when it was first circulated on the Cornell campus. As a brief summary of some useful rules, it does belong on a writer's shelf. But The Elements of Style is also ...
... Style is a good “little book,” as Strunk himself called it in 1919 when it was first circulated on the Cornell campus. As a brief summary of some useful rules, it does belong on a writer's shelf. But The Elements of Style is also ...
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... reflects a belief that their writing went to hell only recently, that lawyers were once known for their elegant style. This view misses a good deal of history. It reminds us of the story Edward I. Koch, the DON'T MAKE IT LIKE IT WAS 13.
... reflects a belief that their writing went to hell only recently, that lawyers were once known for their elegant style. This view misses a good deal of history. It reminds us of the story Edward I. Koch, the DON'T MAKE IT LIKE IT WAS 13.
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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