TY - BOOK AU - Wydick,Richard C. AU - Sloan,Amy E. TI - Plain English for lawyers SN - 9781531023492 AV - KF250 .W9 2024 U1 - 808.06634 23 PY - 2024///] CY - Durham, North Carolina PB - Carolina Academic Press KW - Legal composition N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Why plain English? --; Omit surplus words --; Use verbs to express action --; Prefer the active voice --; Use short sentences --; Arrange your words carefully --; Choose your words carefully --; Use commas carefully --; Use other punctuation marks carefully --; Use artificial intelligence tools wisely --; Use easy-to-read design techniques --; Appendix. Reader's exercise key N2 - "Plain English for Lawyers has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for almost 40 years. The seventh edition, co-authored by Amy Sloan, updates this classic text, including new chapters and exercises, while preserving all the approaches that make it such a standard in the field. In addition to guiding students through techniques for producing clear writing, it now introduces them to principles of document design and appropriate uses of generative AI for writing. Plain English for Lawyers remains (in size only!) a little book, small enough and palatable enough not to intimidate over-loaded law students"-- ER -