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Elder Law Prof Blog
Good Books: Survival Lessons from Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman, author of more than a dozen great novels, plus books for younger readers, recently published her first nonfiction work, Survival Lessons, inspired by her own life and the…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Avoid a long separation between a subject and verb
Don’t overburden your reader by including a long separationbetween a sentence's subject and verb. So cautions George Gopen, a professoremeritus of rhetoric at Duke University. In the summer 2013 issue of…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
50 Ways to Shorten Your Phrases
From Daily Writing Tips comes this useful list of 50 plain-language substitutions for wordy phrases.h/t: the (new) legal writer(kem)
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Hints for enlivening prose
A recent book offers some good hints for enlivening prose. Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch: Let Verbs Power Your Writing, by Constance Hale, urges writers to use strong verbs. It also…
Legal Marketing Blog
Legal Business Development: Writing is Scary!
By Paula Black
I have coached many lawyers to write articles, blogs and books. The initial response is usually; I don't have time, that's too much work, what would I write about, who…
ImmigrationProf Blog
American Immigration Council Announces the Winners of the
The American Immigration Council is pleased to announce that the first place winner of our Community Education Center's 16th Annual 'Celebrate America' Fifth Grade Creative Writing Contest is Erin Stark…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
William Zinsser publishes a new book
William Zinsser, the former Yale professor whose On Writing Well is now a classic, has published a new book on writing. The Writer Who Stayed is a collection of essays from…
The Right Coast
Some interesting MR linksTom Smith
Interesting stuff may often be found on the Marginal Revolution blog, though I find myself often out of sympathy with Tyler Cowen's various prejudices (he's much more of a middle…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Poor models for student writers
If students have difficulty expressing themselves clearly, that may be due to what they’re reading—and I'm not referring to bad novels or Tweets. Case opinions in law school textbooks contain some…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Escaping One’s Own Shadow
Here's another guest post from Kristen Murray at Temple University: The New York Times OpinionatorBlog has an interesting piece called Escaping One’s Own Shadow,in which writer Michael Erard discusses “structural…