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Legal Writing Prof Blog
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"Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
the year’s last bad writing?
Perhaps it's best to put the old year to bed for good when it includes some of the writing examples recently brought to our attention over at the Feminist Law Professors…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Write like a man
For centuries in print and more recently on-line, women who adopted male pseudonyms have fared better than they did writing under their own, female names. So what happens when a law…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
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"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else."~ Gloria Steinem (spl)
Legal Writing Prof Blog
The definitive way to tell the difference between “affect” and “effect”
Man-oh-man - I screw up this one all the time myself. It's weird because I've noticed that over the past few years I've developed blocks in connection with memory skills that I never used to struggle with. …
Texas Bar Blog
The Texas Bar Journal wants your short stories!
It's that time of year again — not when we snuggle around the open fire or get a little silly at the office holiday party, no. It's time for aspiring…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
The words (and phrases) we love to hate
In this recent column by Professor Stanley Fish in the NYT, the author catalogs several contemporary expressions that give us fits like "Your call is important to us" (yeah, right) or "Please listen carefully…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Teaching Writing for Social Justice
The SUNY Council on Writing has issued a call for proposals, for its annual conference, on the topic of Teaching Writing for Social Justice, taking place March 26 & 27, 2010, in Plattsburgh,…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Here’s another website you might be interested in – “Grammar Girl”
Grammar Girl is blog that "provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
“Any time” versus “Anytime”
So what's the difference? Lynn Gaertner-Johnston at the Business Writing blog provides an answer:Do you wonder about the word anytime at any time? Anytime I stop to think about a word before…