Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer's Guide to Writing and Editing - Softcover

Armstrong, Stephen V.; Terrell, Timothy P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402403186 ISBN 13: 9781402403187

Publisher: Practising Law Institute, 2003

Synopsis

Chock-full of exercises, examples, and writing do's and don'ts, Thinking Like a Writer gives you step-by-step instruction on the specialized techniques you need to draft clear and persuasive documents. Learn how to organize material logically, grab a reader's attention, and keep it with clear, crisp content-packed sentences.

About this title

Synopsis

This is a different kind of book about legal writing. It assumes its readers are good writers who have already absorbed most of the usual advice about legal writing. But they may lack the intellectual framework for 'thinking like a writer' with the same incisiveness with which they think like a lawyer. This book provides that framework. It focuses on the underlying principles for communicating complicated information clearly and for establishing your credibility with demanding audiences. As a result, it helps to transform good writers into first-rate ones, and to make them far more efficient and powerful editors of their own writing and of others' drafts. Its unique approach will benefit supervising lawyers who do more editing than writing, as well as lawyers who do their own drafting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practising Law Institute
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402403186
• ISBN 13: 9781402403187
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 417