The lawyer's guide to writing well / Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman.
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2002]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Why lawyers write poorly
- Does bad writing really matter?
- Don't make it like it was
- Part II: The process of writing
- Ten steps to writing
- Of dawdlers and scrawlers, pacers, and plungers : getting started and overcoming blocks
- The mechanics of getting it down : from quill pens to computers
- Lessons from a writing audit
- Lawyers as publishers : words are their product
- Part III: Managing your prose
- Writing the lead
- Form, structure, and organization
- Wrong words, long sentences, and other mister meaners
- Revising your prose
- Making your writing memorable.