{"title":"Legal Education Writing","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"legalwritinginplainenglish-atextwithexercises","title":"Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercises","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdmirably 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReplete 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday more than ever before, legal professionals cannot afford to ignore the trend toward clear language shorn of jargon. 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Despite the age-old tradition of poor writing in law, Legal Writing in Plain English shows how legal writers can unshackle themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLegal Writing in Plain English includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e*Tips on generating thoughts, organizing them, and creating outlines.\u003cbr\u003e\n*Sound advice on expressing your ideas clearly and powerfully.\u003cbr\u003e\n*Dozens of real-life writing examples to illustrate writing problems and solutions.\u003cbr\u003e\n*Exercises to reinforce principles of good writing (also available on the Internet).\u003cbr\u003e\n*Helpful guidance on page layout.\u003cbr\u003e\n*A punctuation guide that shows the correct uses of every punctuation mark.\u003cbr\u003e\n*Model legal documents that demonstrate the power of plain English., ISBN13: 9780226284187 ISBN10: 0226284182 Material Type: paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46107801649315,"sku":"A-STR_UBD_H00012MG","price":13.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81yfNNS4FXL_83eee517-3886-49a7-9bbc-49bf14b9722a.jpg?v=1754536508"},{"product_id":"plain-english-for-lawyers","title":"Plain English for Lawyers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Jurist featured Plain English for Lawyers in its August 2021 list of \"Three Books to Read During Law School,\" saying, \"This one speaks for itself. The book is a quick punch of information: it provides helpful tips to improve your legal writing while familiarizing you with many of the terms of art you are likely to see down the road as a legal professional.\"\u003cbr\u003e\nWydick's Plain English for Lawyers―now in its fifth edition―has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for almost 40 years.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn January 2005, the Legal Writing Institute gave Wydick its Golden Pen Award for having written Plain English for Lawyers. The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all of the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. Its membership also includes law teachers from other nations, English teachers, and practicing lawyers.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe LWI award states: \"Plain English for Lawyers … has become a classic. Perhaps no single work has done more to improve the writing of lawyers and law students and to promote the modern trend toward a clear, plain style of legal writing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\nThe National Jurist recently featured Plain English for Lawyers on its list of \"Three Books to Read During Law School,\" saying, \"This one speaks for itself. The book is a quick punch of information: it provides helpful tips to improve your legal writing while familiarizing you with many of the terms of art you are likely to see down the road as a legal professional.\"\u003cbr\u003e\nHow does the fifth edition of Plain English for Lawyers differ from its predecessors? It remains (in size only!) a little book, small enough and palatable enough not to intimidate over-loaded law students. \"Most of the text remains the same,\" Wydick says, \"but in the past seven years I've learned some new things about writing in English, and I want to share that with the readers.\" In addition, the exercises at the end of the chapters are different (a welcome change for long-time teachers who are tired of the old ones). 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