The lawyer's guide to writing well / Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman.
2002
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Author
Title
The lawyer's guide to writing well / Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
KF250 .G65 2002
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
0520234723 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520234731 (paper : alk. paper)
0520234731 (paper : alk. paper)
Description
xi, 276 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50064433
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Pt. I
Why Lawyers Write Poorly
1Does Bad Writing Really Matter?
3
2Don't Make it Like it Was
12
Pt. II
The Process of Writing
3Ten Steps to Writing
37
4Of Dawdlers and Scrawlers, Pacers, and Plungers: Getting Started and Overcoming Blocks
52
5The Mechanics of Getting It Down: From Quill Pens to Computers
59
6Lessons from a Writing Audit
64
7Lawyers as Publishers: Words Are Their Product
71
Pt. III
Managing Your Prose
8Writing the Lead
79
9Form, Structure, and Organization
88
10Wrong Words, Long Sentences, and Other Mister Meaners
107
11Revising Your Prose
153
12Making Your Writing Memorable
176
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