THE ELEMENTS OF LEGAL STYLE
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With
expanded coverage in this new edition, The Elements of Legal Style features
additional sections, many more examples, and a thoroughly researched appendix
that contains 80 major statements on prose style--what it is and how to attain
it.
Inspired
by Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, this book clearly (often wittily)
explains the full range of what legal writers need to know: mechanics, word
choice, structure, and rhetoric, as well as all the special conventions that
legal writers should follow in using headings, defined terms, quotations, and
many other devices. Garner also provides abundant examples from the best legal
writers of yesterday and today, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence
Darrow, Frank Easterbrook, and Antonin Scalia.
If you want to make your writing clearer, more precise, more persuasive, and above all more stylish, The Elements of Legal Style offers the surest--and the most enjoyable--means to that end.
