Legal Writing in Plain English A Text with Exercises 1st Edition by Bryan A Garner ISBN 0226284174 978-0226284170

Legal Writing in Plain English A Text with Exercises 1st Edition by Bryan A.Garner – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery:0226284174 ,978-0226284170
Full download Legal Writing in Plain English A Text with Exercises 1st Edition after payment

Product details: 

ISBN 10:0226284174

ISBN 13:978-0226284170 

Author:Bryan A.Garner

Admirably clear, concise, down-to-earth, and powerful-unfortunately, these adjectives rarely describe legal writing, whether in the form of briefs, opinions, contracts, or statutes. In Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan A. Garner provides lawyers, judges, paralegals, law students, and legal scholars sound advice and practical tools for improving their written work. The book encourages legal writers to challenge conventions and offers valuable insights into the writing process: how to organize ideas, create and refine prose, and improve editing skills. In essence, it teaches straight thinking—a skill inseparable from good writing.

Replete with common sense and wit, the book draws on real-life writing samples that Garner has gathered through more than a decade of teaching in the field. Trenchant advice covers all types of legal materials, from analytical and persuasive writing to legal drafting. Meanwhile, Garner explores important aspects of document design. Basic, intermediate, and advanced exercises in each section reinforce the book’s principles. (An answer key to basic exercises is included in the book; answers to intermediate and advanced exercises are provided in a separate Instructor’s Manual, free of charge to instructors.) Appendixes include a comprehensive punctuation guide with advice and examples, and four model documents.

Today more than ever before, legal professionals cannot afford to ignore the trend toward clear language shorn of jargon. Clients demand it, and courts reward it. Despite the age-old tradition of poor writing in law, Legal Writing in Plain English shows how legal writers can unshackle themselves.

Legal Writing in Plain English includes:

*Tips on generating thoughts, organizing them, and creating outlines.
*Sound advice on expressing your ideas clearly and powerfully.
*Dozens of real-life writing examples to illustrate writing problems and solutions.
*Exercises to reinforce principles of good writing (also available on the Internet).
*Helpful guidance on page layout.
*A punctuation guide that shows the correct uses of every punctuation mark.
*Model legal documents that demonstrate the power of plain English.

Table of contents: 

Principles for All Legal Writing
Principles Mainly for Analytical and Persuasive Writing
Principles Mainly for Legal Drafting
Principles for Document Design
Methods for Continued Improvement

People also search for:

legal writing plain english

how to write in plain english

importance of plain english in legal writing

plain english for lawyers

drafting legal documents in plain english

Tags: Bryan A Garner, Legal, Writing