The Technique Of Clear Writing

What your reader wants; Ten principles of clear writing; Causes and cures.

This basic, self-study book will help you develop a direct, clear, and concise writing style. It presents a step-by-step approach for writing effective sentences, paragraphs, and other informational formats. Self-editing techniques for avoiding common writing problems are carefully explained.

This title is no longer stocked by us. It is now available directly from Christopher Enright: [email protected] How should lawyers go about their tasks in working with law, in making, interpreting, using, reading and writing law? Enright's book describes clear and simple techniques for working with law. It explains why the technique is needed and what it achieves, and then provides a model for doing it. Each model consists of a step by step guide for performing the relevant task. Legal Technique is structured to be the textbook in an introductory law course where the techniques are described, and intended for re-use in later courses on substantive law where these techniques must be further taught and practised in the context of those subjects. Legal Technique is accompanied by a free Legal Technique eWorkbook (see Supplement) containing materials, questions and answers. Included are exercises for working with statutes, cases, legal texts and for solving legal problems; further exercises to practise approaches to common law and statutory law subjects generally; and specific exercises for the subjects 'Introduction to Law', 'Constitutional Law', and 'Property Law'.

"This book is all about clear writing. It is designed to assist all those who feel their writing needs improvement. It teaches that writing is an art form which can be learned through dedication and perseverance. A well organized and readable book with tried and tested insights, it encourages clear and accurate thinking by careful preparation and organization as the foundation of all writing tasks."--Publisher.

This book is poised to become the new "how-to" book to transform anxious e-mail hacks and mediocre memo writers into eloquent electronic scribes in no time at all.