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The elements of legal style / Bryan A. Garner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2002Edition: Second editionDescription: xvii, 268 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195141628
  • 9780195141627
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.06634 21
LOC classification:
  • KF250 .G37 2002
Online resources:
Partial contents:
ch. 1 The Letters of the law -- ch. 2 Punctuation -- Word Choice -- Grammar and syntax ch. 3 Fundamental principles of legal writing -- ch. 4 Some matters of form -- ch. 5 Words and expressions confused and misused -- ch. 6 Rhetorical figures in law -- Comparison -- Syntactic arrangement -- Repetition -- ch. 7 An Approach to legal style -- Being yourself -- Exposition and argument -- Speaking legally -- Expressive tactics -- ch. 8 Parting word.
Summary: "Since the first edition was published in 1991, The Elements of Legal Style has established itself as the authoritative guide on all the major issues of writing style in law. Now its coverage has been expanded in this new edition, which features additional sections, many more examples, and a thoroughly researched appendix that contains 80 major statements on prose style what it is and how to attain it. Inspired by Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, this book clearly (often wittily) explains the full range of what legal writers need to know: mechanics, word choice, structure, and rhetoric, as well as all the special conventions that legal writers should follow in using headings, defined terms, quotations, and many other devices. The Elements of Legal Style, 2nd Edition is written for lawyers, law students, judges, and their law clerks--and for anyone who writes in and about the law. With broad experience as a practitioner, academic, and writing consultant, Bryan Garner knows firsthand where legal writing so often goes wrong, and he pays particular attention to these trouble spots."--Publisher description.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 808.06634 GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Issued 30/09/2024 A474460B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1 The Letters of the law -- ch. 2 Punctuation -- Word Choice -- Grammar and syntax ch. 3 Fundamental principles of legal writing -- ch. 4 Some matters of form -- ch. 5 Words and expressions confused and misused -- ch. 6 Rhetorical figures in law -- Comparison -- Syntactic arrangement -- Repetition -- ch. 7 An Approach to legal style -- Being yourself -- Exposition and argument -- Speaking legally -- Expressive tactics -- ch. 8 Parting word.

"Since the first edition was published in 1991, The Elements of Legal Style has established itself as the authoritative guide on all the major issues of writing style in law. Now its coverage has been expanded in this new edition, which features additional sections, many more examples, and a thoroughly researched appendix that contains 80 major statements on prose style what it is and how to attain it. Inspired by Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, this book clearly (often wittily) explains the full range of what legal writers need to know: mechanics, word choice, structure, and rhetoric, as well as all the special conventions that legal writers should follow in using headings, defined terms, quotations, and many other devices. The Elements of Legal Style, 2nd Edition is written for lawyers, law students, judges, and their law clerks--and for anyone who writes in and about the law. With broad experience as a practitioner, academic, and writing consultant, Bryan Garner knows firsthand where legal writing so often goes wrong, and he pays particular attention to these trouble spots."--Publisher description.

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