EFFCTIVE LEGAL WRING A STYLE BOOK FOR LAW STUDENTS AND LAWYERSPDF电子书下载

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Chapter One. Grammar and Meaning 1

1. Punctuation of Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Clauses 2

2. Case of the Relative Pronoun ("Who/Whom") 4

3. Case of Personal Pronouns (I/Me, He/Him, She/Her,They/Them) 7

4. The Dangling Modifier 8

5. Sentence Fragments 9

6. Run-on Sentences 10

7. The Semi-colon/Comma Choice 11

8. The Colon 12

9. Number Errors 13

10. The Extra "That," Other Redundancies, and Some Dele-tions 15

11. Count and Non-Count Nouns 17

Chapter Two. Legal Style 20

1. Pitfalls to Avoid 21

a. Jargon 21

b. Metaphor-osis 22

c. Impossible Comparisons 23

2. Careful Choice of Connectors 25

3. Noun/Verb Mismatch 28

4. Vague Referents 29

5. Word Order 30

a. Placement for Emphasis 30

b. Expletives 32

c. Lists 33

6. The Passive Construction 33

7. Vague and Vogue Words 34

8. Abstract vs. Concrete Language 37

9. Shift of Viewpoint 39

10. Cumbersome Sentences 40

11. Parallelism 43

12. The Ambiguous Negative 46

Chapter Three. Expository and Argumentative Techniques 49

1. Rhetorical Strategies 49

a. Deduction and Induction 49

b. Analogy 53

c. Definition and Classification 55

d. Comparison and Contrast 55

e. Process 57

f. Illustration 58

2. Logical Fallacies 58

3. Examsmanship 61

a. Preparing for the Final Examination 61

b. Taking the Examination 63

c. Some Caveats 67

Chapter Four. Problems and Answers for Writing Practice 72

APPENDIX 103

Chapter One. Grammar and Meaning 103

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 1 103

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 2 105

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 3 107

Exercise and answers to accompany Sections 4, 5, and 6 109

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 11 112

Chapter Two. Legal Style 113

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 1, a 113

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 1, b and c 115

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 2 117

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 3 119

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 4 121

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 5, a and c 123

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 5, b 126

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 6 128

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 7 130

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 8 132

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 9 135

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 10 137

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 11 140

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 12 142

Chapter Three. Expository and Argumentative Techniques 144

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 1, a 144

Exercise and answers to accompany Section 2 146

Index 149

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