Legal Writing Exercises: A Practical Guide to Clear and Persuasive Writing for Lawyers
- Publisher:
- American Bar Association
- Publication date:
- 2014-11-18
- Authors:
-
Edwin Scott Fruehwald
(Law Professor at the University of Alabama) - ISBN:
- 9781627228923
Description:
This resource will help you develop your legal writing skills so that you can more effectively communicate with others in the language of the law.
Index
- Preface
- Introduction: General Principles of Writing and Editing
- Active and Passive Sentences and Writing with Verbs
- Editing for Wordiness
- Emphasis, Clarity, and Specificity
- Combining Sentences and Editing Paragraphs
- Organizing Paragraphs and Creating Coherence
- The Small-Scale Paradigm
- Large- and Medium-Scale Organization
- Review
- Glossary