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Appellate Advocacy Blog
How to Use Feedback to Become a Better Writer
After I was newly admitted to the bar, I was told attorneys “practice” law because we are always improving upon our craft. One way we improve our writing as…
Texas Bar Blog
Texas Bar Journal announces 2019 Short Story Contest winners
Thank you to the 29 writers who submitted entries to the Texas Bar Journal Short Story Contest this year. Author names were removed from entries before being submitted to judges…
Vable
How to improve your writing skills immediately!
By Clare Brown
We all have quirks in our writing. For many years I enjoyed constructing long sentenced, semicolon studded, purple prose. This isn’t ideal when you are embarking on academic study so…
Every Day Rhetoric
Petraglia’s Kite Keeps Flying Part 1
By chrisgrim
I wanted to write my first real post about one of my favorite concepts: pseudotransactional writing. Originally introduced to the concept from Spinuzzi's 2009 article Pseudotransactionality, Activity Theory, and Professional…
From Briefs to Books
The Friend – by Sigrid Nunez
“The Friend” is a novel about writing, friendship, loss and man’s (in this case woman’s) relationship to animals, most particularly dogs. Although short (214 pages), The Friend packs a punch…
Pannone Corporate News and Opinion
Why the Americans fundamentally dropped America
By HJ Test
Planning summarised records of various issues in your words will enrich your writing skill in addition to help you in studying those areas better. When solving the aforementioned issue, I…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Don’t Neglect Your Writerly Voice
We fully endorse a tip found in this week's issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education in a short piece called "How Not to Neglect Your Writerly Voice." Jan. 25,…
Jaffe Blog
Editing Attorneys: A Battle Worth Fighting?
How would you handle this sticky situation? One of the partners at a firm continually rejects corrections to his punctuation and grammar errors in articles that are emailed to clients…
From Briefs to Books
Asymmetry – by Lisa Halliday
“asymmetry a·sym·me·try (ā-sĭm'ĭ-trē) n. Disproportion between two or more like parts; lack of symmetry.” Dictionary.com “Asymmetry” is three interlocking yet seemingly unrelated stories revolving around writing. Alice, a 25 year old editorial assistant, meets Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Ezra Blazer…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Big ideas in small packages: the power of thesis sentences to distill what matters
What’s the most important writing skill? Perhaps you might say “conciseness”? “Clarity”? Yawn. Of course those are fine, but as we've discussed in previous posts, challenging yourself with generic goals like "write concisely" won't make much real difference…