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Expert Legal Writing / Terri LeClercq.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292792647
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.06634 20
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Introduction: Getting and Keeping a Competitive Edge -- Part II. Manipulating Legal Sentences: First Aid -- Part III. Manipulating Legal Organization: Structure Is Meaning -- Part IV. Manipulating Words: Bigger Isn't Better -- Part V. Punctuating for Clarity: The Poetry of Punctuation -- Part VI. Advice and References: So Go Be an Expert -- Index
Summary: For ten years, Terri LeClercq's "Legal Writing" column in the Texas Bar Journal has helped polish the prose of lawyers and law students, judges and clerks, paralegals, writing instructors, and legal secretaries. This book collects all the advice she has given in her columns into one authoritative guide for expert legal writing. LeClercq covers everything a legal writer needs to know, from the mechanics of grammar and punctuation to the finer points of style, organization, and clarity of meaning. With her practical, readable, and often humorous advice, those who prepare legal documents can rid their prose of mind-numbing "legalese" and write with the clarity and precision that characterize the very best legal writing.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780292792647

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Introduction: Getting and Keeping a Competitive Edge -- Part II. Manipulating Legal Sentences: First Aid -- Part III. Manipulating Legal Organization: Structure Is Meaning -- Part IV. Manipulating Words: Bigger Isn't Better -- Part V. Punctuating for Clarity: The Poetry of Punctuation -- Part VI. Advice and References: So Go Be an Expert -- Index

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For ten years, Terri LeClercq's "Legal Writing" column in the Texas Bar Journal has helped polish the prose of lawyers and law students, judges and clerks, paralegals, writing instructors, and legal secretaries. This book collects all the advice she has given in her columns into one authoritative guide for expert legal writing. LeClercq covers everything a legal writer needs to know, from the mechanics of grammar and punctuation to the finer points of style, organization, and clarity of meaning. With her practical, readable, and often humorous advice, those who prepare legal documents can rid their prose of mind-numbing "legalese" and write with the clarity and precision that characterize the very best legal writing.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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