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Legal Writing Triage: Self-Edit To Solve The Most Common Style Problems, Robert S. Anderson
Legal Writing Triage: Self-Edit To Solve The Most Common Style Problems, Robert S. Anderson
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This article addresses one of the most common style problems in legal writing: subject-verb issues that produce confusing or overlong sentences. It then prescribes a simple approach to curing the problem in quick, step-by-step fashion.
And Your Point Is? Write Directly, Robert S. Anderson
And Your Point Is? Write Directly, Robert S. Anderson
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This article suggests two strategies for making your writing more direct: (1) make the reader a promise to be direct in the introduction of your piece; and (2) keep that promise by organizing the material to match the preview provided in your introduction and adopting a style that does not waste words.