Legal Writing Blog Posts from November 19, 2009
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What the Heck are ?Peeps??
A reader wants to know about the usage of "peeps." Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.Posted on Daily Writing Tips on November 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Gentlemen, Choose Your Weapons
Writing tools can affect your style. In the days of quill and dip pens, the length of sentences (or at least, phrases) was apparently determined by the amount of ink held by the pen, and prose rhythm was dictated by this simple physical constraint. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.Posted on Daily Writing Tips on November 19, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Word of the Day: Browbeat
Browbeat means to intimidate or subjugate by the use of verbal harassment or force. A synonym to browbeat is to bully. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.Posted on Daily Writing Tips on November 19, 2009 at 5:28 PM
job opening at Texas Tech
Texas Tech University School of Law seeks applicants for an opening in its nationally ranked Legal Practice Program for the 2010-11 school year. The successful applicant will join a program that comprises four other full-time LP Professors, an adjunct professor,...Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM
recent scholarship
Thanks to LWI's cooperation with LSN, a division of SSRN, we have these reports on recent legal writing related scholarship, with each author's abstract: "Thorough Academic Legal Research Will Improve Your Papers" Student Lawyer, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 8-9,...Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 19, 2009 at 1:31 PM
West makes textbook on persuasion available for Kindle
This one comes to us from our good buddy Mitch Rubinstein of the Adjunct Law Prof Blog (which was recently named one of the 10 best blogs for legal news written "by and for law profs"). West is making 29...Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 19, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Word of the year: Unfriend
Oxford University Press, publisher of the New Oxford American Dictionary, has chosen "unfriend" as the word of the year for 2009. Here is the definition, according to the OUP blog: unfriend ? verb ? To remove someone as a ?friend? on a social networking site such as Facebook. Of course, now the debate has begun over whether thePosted on Triangle Grammar Guide on November 19, 2009 at 7:05 AM
AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research
Here is a link to the Fall 2009 Newsletter of the Association of American Law Schools' Section of Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research. Download AALS Legal Writing Newsletter Fall 2009 FINAL (mew)Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 19, 2009 at 3:05 AM
The words (and phrases) we love to hate
In this recent column by Professor Stanley Fish in the NYT, the author catalogs several contemporary expressions that give us fits like "Your call is important to us" (yeah, right) or "Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed"...Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 19, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Professionalism alert: Tell your students that when it comes to their resumes, don't "gild the lily."
The National Law Journal reports that given how desperate some job seekers have become in this market, employers are seeing much more resume fraud. Here are some of the more egregious examples cited by the NLJ: ? Claiming to be...Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 19, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Subordinate Clauses and Commas
Writers like to sprinkle their work with subordinate clauses because they add variety to sentence structure. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.Posted on Daily Writing Tips on November 18, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Sobeit and So Be It
Is there such a word as "sobeit"? Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.Posted on Daily Writing Tips on November 18, 2009 at 9:00 PM
a rule is like . . .
In a recent class, a student was confused about the difference between the rule and the rule explanation/proof, and a classmate offered this explanation: The rule is like describing the forest, and the rule explanation is like describing the trees....Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 18, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Use Theme to Lift Readers to a Higher View of the Story
Two days a week, about 50 steps from my desk, sits another writer in another office finishing up another book. His name is Tom French. We met years and years ago at a Bruce Springsteen concert, and we have been writing pals ever since. We share the same agent and a long friendship, but it is a coincidence that has us writing our books at the same timePosted on Writing Tools on November 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM
So Sorry to Hear That You Were Impacted!
Reader Ron Harper, Jr. wants to know if people can be impacted. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.Posted on Daily Writing Tips on November 18, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Scholarship alert: "Enhancing Law School Success: A Study of Goal Orientations, Academic Achievement and the Declining Self-Efficacy of our Law Students"
Not legal writing per se, but authored by legal writing prof Leah M. Christensen and found at 33 Law & Psychol. Rev 57 (2009). From the introduction: I have long been interested in how the most successful law students learn....Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM
Copy editors will think this is funny
We used to have a saying on the copy desk: Don't follow the stylebook out the window. In other words, common sense should govern which style rules you enforce. The Associated Press Stylebook is the guide we use for deciding how to handle some usage matters. We follow it -- mostly. Some of us love it, and some of us hate it. Some of us see it as a blPosted on Triangle Grammar Guide on November 18, 2009 at 7:57 AM
?Verbing? Nouns
I was disappointed yesterday when, while cruising Facebook, I noticed a national pharmacy company?s request for me to ?fan? them. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook.Posted on Daily Writing Tips on November 18, 2009 at 7:05 AM
Step Into the Mystery of Practical English with the Glamour of Grammar
Since my book "Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer" was conceived on this Web site, I would like to bring you up to date on what has happened to the book since its publication three years ago. I also have some news on how you can get your hands on these writing strategies both old and new.GLAMOUR OF GRAMMAR Due out AugusPosted on Writing Tools on November 18, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Yet more on the future of commercial legal research databases versus open access
This time it's the Law Librarian Blog founder and our good buddy Joe Hodnicki weighing in on the Bob Berring video. Joe thinks that competitive forces will inevitably challenge Wexis' market share and that some of the competition will come...Posted on Legal Writing Prof Blog on November 18, 2009 at 12:32 AM
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How to evict a roommate?
First, in most jurisdictions "self-help" is not a remedy available to any party ...
I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
How do you recover money from a stop payment placed on a personal check given to you?
you can always take them to small claims court and sure them for 3 times the amo...
The company I worked for forced me to quit instead of dealing with someone harassing me, what can I do?
Look up CONSTRUCTIVE DISCHARGE...................this looks like what happened t...
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