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The lawyer's guide to writing well / Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman.
- Title
- The lawyer's guide to writing well / Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman.
- Author
- Goldstein, Tom.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | KF250 .G65 1991 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Lieberman, Jethro K. (Jethro Koller)
- Description
- xi, 278 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- Legal composition
- Note
- "Published by arrangement with McGraw-Hill, Inc."--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I. Why Lawyers Write Poorly -- 1. Does Bad Writing Really Matter? -- 2. Don't Make it Like it Was -- Pt. II. The Process of Writing -- 3. Ten Steps to Writing -- 4. Of Dawdlers and Scrawlers, Pacers, and Plungers: Getting Started and Overcoming Blocks -- 5. The Mechanics of Getting It Down: From Quill Pens to Computers -- 6. Lessons from a Writing Audit -- 7. Lawyers as Publishers: Words Are Their Product -- Pt. III. Managing Your Prose -- 8. Writing the Lead -- 9. Form, Structure, and Organization -- 10. Wrong Words, Long Sentences, and Other Mister Meaners -- 11. Revising Your Prose -- 12. Making Your Writing Memorable.
- ISBN
- 0520073215 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^90026879^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library