| The Elements of Legal Style Contributor(s): Garner, Bryan A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195141628 ISBN-13: 9780195141627 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $31.34 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal Writing - Business & Economics | Business Law - Language Arts & Disciplines | Editing & Proofreading |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| LCCN: 2001055476 |
| Series: Elements of Legal Style |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.22" W x 8.1" (0.98 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |