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Lawyers wield words like a surgeon wields a scalpel. Words are the tools of the lawyering profession. In Legal Research and Writing, you learn how to use words to accomplish a legal task -- in effect, how to do surgery. But it’s hard to do good surgery with a dull, rusty scalpel. Academic Support offers individual help and exercises in sentence-level writing (sentence structure, grammar, and usage) to help students write more effectively.
Wayne Schiess's Writing for the Legal Audience is an excellent, accessible, and slender new book on legal writing that ties sentence-level writing tips with practical lawyering tasks such as writing clients. And for pointers on style, plus an example of vigorous writing at its best, it's hard to beat The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White.
Here are links to some valuable writing websites:
OWL (Purdue University's Online Writing Lab)
Handouts and presentations on most major grammar and punctuation problems.
Diana Hacker's Rules for Writers
Grammar exercises and more. |