Writing Shorter Legal Documents
� Strategies for Faster and Better Editing
| Författare: | Oster Sandra J |
| Titel: | Writing Shorter Legal Documents � Strategies for Faster and Better Editing |
| Utgivningsår: | 2011 |
| Omfång: | 178 sid. |
| Förlag: | ABA |
| ISBN: | 9781616329914 |
| Ämnesord: | Lexikon ordböcker och språkvetenskap , Utländsk rätt |
Pris: 330 SEK exkl. moms 
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 In a legal document, in accordance with federal, state, and local court rules, every letter and space is important. Writing Shorter Legal Documents is a concise, practical handbook that explains how to quickly, efficiently reduce the length of your legal documents. It's a collection of advice written to keep you within grammatical and court rules, for both length and construction, while preserving and even clarifying your argument. The author, a lawyer with a Ph.D in linguistics, has divided 35 precise strategies into five chapters: -An Approach to Shorten Legal Documents -Revising Terminology -Revising Lists, Phrases, and Sentences -Changing the Appearance of Text on the Page -Cutting Content When you're on a deadline with the court and are over the maximum word count in your document, this book provides the fast, easy editing tricks you'll need. |