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Legal Writing Prof Blog
Happy National Punctuation Day!
Today is National Punctuation Day--read more about it here. I wish the site's discussion of the colon explained that an introductory passage ending with one must be grammatically complete. (See Anne…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Inspirational Movie Clips About Writing
In connection with the upcoming Boyd School of Law Public Interest Film Festival, I’vegotten to thinking about film clips for use in the legal writing classroom. We can easily identify…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
a writer’s sense of time
When you're fully engaged in writing, it's easy to forget that time is marching on. Hours can go by and seem like minutes. Perhaps that's why someone invented the writer's clock.hat…
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fiction techniques for drawing in or distancing the audience
Here's her summary:"This article starts from the premise that legal clients have individual truths. To convey those truths and create empathy for clients, appellate brief writers can use fiction point…
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Issues with undergraduate rigor
If you think students are arriving at law school less prepared than in the past, it’s not just your imagination, according to Dr. Richard Arum. Today I heard Arum, the…
Litigation & Trial
Stolidly Productive Humility: Instilling Discipline By Finding Fun
Yesterday Letters of Note, one of the essential reads of the Internet, posted a letter from David Foster Wallace, who had just completed but not yet published Infinite Jest, to Don…
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The Indispensability of Editing When Constructing Voice
Pulitzer Prize winning author and creative writing professor Richard Rhodes has a great piece in the Wall Street Journal exploring the distinction between self-talk and the various constructs of voice. He…
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Gopen on Using the Passive Voice
Professor George Gopen, an English Professor at Duke University and the 2011 recipient of the Legal Writing Institute's Golden Pen Award, has published a short article in Law Practice Magazine about five times when you…
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a boost for your legal scholarship
Whether you're required to write legal scholarship for your job or you just want to, whether you were on a law journal as a student or not, getting started can…
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quotable
"Rewriting is really just the middle name of writing."~ Francis Ford Coppola, interviewed at the June 2010 Toronto Film Festival (spl)