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Author
Title
The elements of legal style / Bryan A. Garner.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Call Number
KF250 .G37 2002
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0195141628 (alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 268 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)48376059
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1
The Letters of the Law
1
2
Fundamental Rules of Usage
15
Punctuation
15
Word Choice
29
Grammar and Syntax
40
3
Fundamental Principles of Legal Writing
53
4
Some Matters of Form
75
5
Words and Expressions Confused and Misused
99
6
Rhetorical Figures in Law
149
Comparison
150
Wordplay
154
Syntactic Arrangement
160
Repetition
168
7
An Approach to Legal Style
177
Being Yourself
177
Exposition and Argument
181
Speaking Legally
191
Expressive Tactics
198
8
A Parting Word
221
App
Eighty Classic Statements About Style
223
Index
241