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General Legal Writing
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The Elements of Legal Writing, by Martha Faulk and Irving M. Mehler (MacMillan Publishing Company)
This netLibrary book is available online to the UNT community - Similar to Strunk and White’s Elements of Style,
this guide to grammar and style for the legal profession is intended to
help lawyers, paralegals, and students minimize their legalese and
write with clarity and grace.
- A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, by Bryan A. Garner
(Oxford University Press)
Call No. KF156 .G367 1987 - Gives
practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Words,
phrases, and a few topics are arranged alphabetically and defined or
discussed, with distinctions drawn between similar terms.
- Exercises from Legal Writing in Plain English (University of
Chicago Press)
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Legal Writing in Plain English, Bryan Garner teaches legal
writers how to organize ideas, create and refine prose, and improve
editing skills. The exercises here are organized under fifty principles.
Click on the principle to go to its exercise page.
- Expert Legal Writing, by Terri LeClercq (University of Texas Press)
Available on Third Floor of Willis Library under Call No. KF250 .L39 1995 - A
guide to writing legal documents with clarity and precision. Discusses
punctuation and grammar, style, organization, and even how to generate
ideas. The author is a columnist for the Texas Bar Journal.
- The Law
Student's Guide to Good Writing (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
- Explanations of the rules of grammar, punctuation,
and good writing that are most important to legal writing. Also includes
exercises (with answers) on each of the topics discussed.
- The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style, by Bryan A. Garner with Jeff Newman and Tiger Jackson (West Group)
Available at the Government Documents Service Desk under Call No. KF250 .G375 2002 - Comprehensive
guide to writing, focusing on the specific needs of legal writers and
emphasizing the ways legal writing differs from other kinds of
technical writing. Covers grammar, style, punctuation, capitalization,
spelling, footnotes, and citations, illustrating everything in a legal
context. Also covers editing, proofreading, design, and layout.
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