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This concise paperback focuses on the nuances of legal writing style and provides novice legal writers with the skills they need to polish their writing. Guide to Legal Writing Style, Fourth Edition, intended as an ancillary to any basic legal writing text, expands what students learn in their first-year courses by providing additional techniques and style tips that will help make their writing more precise, readable and elegant.

This highly regarded paperback, specifically directed at legal writers, offers

crisp, pointed advice written in a personal and humorous style lucid organization that helps students find the information they need most, including practice with basic skills and helpful advice on organization, sentence structure, word choice, punctuation, and formatting an emphasis on legal ethics throughout, with most of the examples and exercises focusing on ethical issues a chapter on organization that compares and contrasts undergraduate terms and goals with those expected by a legal audience a guide that helps students guard against plagiarism short, end-of-chapter exercises, with the answers at the back of the book, that strengthen skills and provide opportunities for self-testing

Special features in the Fourth Edition include:

an updated interactive CD-ROM with multiple exercises to reinforce the materials in the book, which includes updated and expanded tests of basic skills and click-on answers and explanations a new chapter testing common errors in professional writing, with explanations as well as succinct answers new checklists that reinforce essential advice of each chapter

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• Message to Students(p. xv)
• Chapter 1 Reviewing the Basics(p. 1)
• Basic Review(p. 2)
• Answers to Basic Review(p. 2)
• Higher Competency Quiz(p. 4)
• Chapter 2 Creating Sentences with Style(p. 7)
• Unraveling Tough Sentences; Creating and Connecting Sentences with Style(p. 9)
• Exercise 1 Unraveling Tough Sentences; Creating and Connecting Sentences with Style(p. 21)
• Avoiding Sentence Errors(p. 22)
• Exercise 2 Avoiding Error(p. 30)
• Incorporating Authority(p. 31)
• Exercise 3 Incorporating Authority(p. 36)
• What to Remember(p. 37)
• Advice to English as a Second Language Writers(p. 37)
• Chapter 3 Choosing Words with Style(p. 39)
• Jargon and Terms of Art(p. 40)
• Professional Tone(p. 42)
• Strong Nouns and Verbs(p. 44)
• Nominalizations(p. 46)
• Wordiness(p. 47)
• Treacherous/Misused Words(p. 50)
• What to Remember(p. 57)
• Advice to English as a Second Language Writers(p. 57)
• Concluding Exercises(p. 58)
• Chapter 4 Punctuating with Style(p. 61)
• General Punctuation Rules(p. 62)
• Specific Legal Writing Rules(p. 69)
• What to Remember(p. 72)
• Advice to English as a Second Language Writers(p. 72)
• Concluding Exercises(p. 73)
• Chapter 5 Organizing with Style(p. 75)
• Undergraduate versus Law School Organization(p. 76)
• How to Begin to Organize(p. 84)
• Introductory Material(p. 85)
• Other Components of Organizing with Style(p. 86)
• Using Headings as Signposts(p. 86)
• Using Topic Sentences and Transitions Effectively(p. 87)
• Other Helpful Advice for Organizing with Style(p. 90)
• What to Remember(p. 93)
• Advice to English as a Second Language Writers(p. 94)
• Concluding Exercises(p. 95)
• Chapter 6 Presenting Material with Style(p. 99)
• Visual Presentation(p. 100)
• Example 1 Memorandum of Law (Segment)(p. 106)
• Example 2 Law Student Cover Letter(p. 107)
• Proofreading and Other Nuances of Presentation(p. 109)
• What to Remember(p. 113)
• Appendix Answers to Exercises(p. 115)
• Chapter 1 Higher Competency Quiz(p. 115)
• Chapter 2 Creating Sentences with Style(p. 116)
• Exercise 1 (p. 116)
• Exercise 2 (p. 117)
• Exercise 3 (p. 118)
• Chapter 3 Concluding Exercises(p. 119)
• Chapter 4 Concluding Exercises(p. 120)
• Chapter 5 Concluding Exercises(p. 121)
• Index(p. 125)