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posted by Wayne Schiess at 12:59 PM
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Wayne Schiess's legal-writing blog. Home is here: Legalwriting.net
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Thank you to those who read and vote.
-Wayne
previous posts
- Some dangling modifiers okay?
- Morton Freeman on light connectors
- Garner on analysis: beginning, middle, end
- Book recommendation: Making Your Point
- Choosing topics for topic sentences
- Two more nouns verbed; grammarians have few leads....
- Word limits in the U.S. Supreme Court
- Serial comma insight
- Against Latin
- Word limits v. Page limits
Wayne's books
[Plain language] has a bad name among some lawyers. This is usually because they don't understand enough about it to judge it properly. --Michele M. Asprey, Plain Language for Lawyers 11 (2d ed., Federation Press 1996).
A related bonus of a plain language style is the potential for reducing mistakes. Traditional legal language tends to hide inconsistencies and ambiguities. Errors are harder to find in dense and convoluted prose. Removing legalese helps lay bare any oversights in the original. --Peter Butt & Richard Castle, Modern Legal Drafting: A Guide to Using Clearer Language 89 (Cambridge U. Press 2001).
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