Lawyer's Editing Manual

Name: Lawyer's Editing Manual
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ISBN: 9781594605383

ISBN-10: 1594605386

ISBN-13: 9781594605383

Edition: N/A

Authors: Joan Magat

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While other manuals cover citation conventions, The Lawyer's Editing Manual covers all the rest that the legal writer and the editor ought to know: conventions that underlie effective formal prose, including grammar and punctuation, the effective use of quotations, and usage and style. "Rules" meaning conventions most universally accepted are stated, but so are their exceptions and, when possible, the logic for each. The legal writers ability to communicate to the reader directly and clearly is guided not just by "correct" prose, but by stylistic conventions that further its effectiveness. The Lawyer's Editing Manual thus includes advice on unambiguous word choice and modifier…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication date: 1/1/2009
Binding: Comb Bound
Pages: 144
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Joan Ames Magat is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law.