Legal Writing in Plain
English
by Bryan Gardner includes
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Tips on generating thoughts,
organizing them, and creating outlines |
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Advice on expressing your
ideas clearly and powerfully |
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Dozens of real-life writing
examples to illustrate writing problems and solutions |
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Exercises to reinforce
principles of good writing |
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Helpful guidance on page
layout |
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A punctuation guide that
shows the correct uses of every punctuation mark |
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Model legal documents that
demonstrate the power of plain English |
The exercises from
Legal Writing
in Plain English are organized under fifty principles.
Click on the principle to go to its exercise page.
Quiz on Revising Passive Constructions
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's masterpiece is a superb example of how parallel
form produces eloquence. Find the parallelisms yourself. Then
click on the movie icon to see the patterns of parallelism
within the Address. Parallel Quizzes
Quiz
1
Quiz 2
Quiz
3 |
