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"Schiess's Biggest Pet Peeves: Analytical Writing"

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This post was written by Wayne Schiess: "Here are my biggest pet peeves in analytical legal writing--primarily memos and briefs. I'll have another list for legal drafting. This isn't a list of the biggest problems in legal writing, just the ones that bug me.

 

Abstraction...

Lack of up-front summary or preview...

Double-spacing...

All-CAPS...

Run-on sentences with however...

Over-deletion of that...

Over-creation of defined names...

Unnecessary dates...

 

Full text is available by clicking on the author's name.

Source: Legalwriting.net Blog, 23 September 2010. Copyright 2008. Reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).

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