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Author:   Tom Goldstein ,  Jethro K. Lieberman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.064kg
ISBN:  

9780520234734

ISBN 10:   0520234731
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   13 January 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I. Why Lawyers Write Poorly 1. Does Bad Writing Really Matter? 2. Don't Make It Like It Was Part 2. The Process of Writing 3. Ten Steps to Writing 4. Of Dawdlers and Scrawlers, Pacers, and Plungers: Getting Started and Overcoming Blocks 5. The Mechanics of Getting It Down: From Quill Pens to Computers 6. Lessons from a Writing Audit 7. Lawyers as Publishers: Words Are Their Product Part 3. Managing Your Prose 8. Writing the Lead 9. Form, Structure, and Organization 10. Wrong Words, Long Sentences, and Other Mister Meaners 11. Revising Your Prose 12. Making Your Writing Memorable Notes Usage Notes An Editing Checklist Editing Exercises Suggested Revisions to Editing Exercises Reference Works Acknowledgments About the Authors Index

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Should be in the office of every lawyer. -William Safire, NYTimes Magazine

""Should be in the office of every lawyer.""-William Safire, NYTimes Magazine

Author Information

Tom Goldstein is former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and author of Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media Criticism (1989) and The News at Any Cost: How Journalists Compromise Their Ethics to Shape the News (1985). Jethro K. Lieberman is Associate Dean, Professor of Law, and Director of the Writing Program at New York Law School, as well as Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the coauthor of The Lawyer's Craft: An Introduction to Legal Analysis, Writing, Research, and Advocacy (2002) and author of A Practical Companion to the Constitution: How the Supreme Court Has Ruled on Issues from Abortion to Zoning (California, 1999).

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