Add Punch to Your Writing
Bench & Bar, p. 80, May 2008
University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2008-24
3 Pages Posted: 12 Jun 2008 Last revised: 5 Jul 2008
Abstract
This article offers tips for adding punch to legal writing. Among the suggestions are to prefer strong verbs, avoid nominalizations, be direct, and vary sentence beginnings and lengths. Examples illustrate how to use the tips.
Keywords: legal writing, punch, strong verbs, nominalizations, concrete, specific, direct, strings of prepositional phrases, long sentences, vary sentence beginnings
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Fischer, Judith D., Add Punch to Your Writing. Bench & Bar, p. 80, May 2008, University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 2008-24, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1143004
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