OSB Legal Writer
This series of articles is written by Suzanne Rowe and other legal writing professors from Oregon's law schools. Featured authors include Rebekah Hanley, Sam Jacobson, Megan McAlpin, and Joan Rocklin.
2009
October 2009 -- Perfect Tenses: The Timing of Verbs
August/September 2009 -- Lessons from the Magic Kingdom: A Legal Writer Reflects on Summer Vacation
July 2009 -- Running On?: Life Support for Sentences
June 2009 -- Clear or Confusing?: When Repetition Works (and Doesn't)
May 2009 -- Word Choices IV: Too Close for Comfort?
April 2009 -- Word Choices III: Verb Pairs that Puzzle
February/March 2009 -- Making it Plain: In Love with Legalese?
January 2009 -- Resolutions: A New Writing Process for the New Year
2008
December 2008 -- Gifts for Your Legal Writer: A Shopper's Guide
November 2008 -- Signaling Support: Linking Citation to Text
October 2008 -- Silencing the Novelist Within: Squelching Creative Writing
August/September 2008 -- Mea Culpa: Mistakes of a Legal Writing Column Writer
July 2008 -- Reader-Friendly Transitions: Showing the Way From Here to There
June 2008 -- Keep It Simple: "Short and Sweet" Brings Clarity to Legal Writing
May 2008 -- E-Writing: tips 4 btr comm
April 2008 -- Writing with Oregon Style
February/March 2008 - Problems with Pronouns: Replacing Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
January 2008 - Word Choices II: More Pairs That Puzzle
2007
December 2007 - A Parallel Universe: Keeping the Grammatical World in Order
November 2007 - Devilish Details: Legal Writing is Precise Writing
October 2007 - The Beauty of the Verb
August/September 2007 - Abuse of Discretion
July 2007 - Passive Voice
June 2007 - Finessing Gender Pronouns: When "He" or "She" Just Won't Do
May 2007 - Comma Power: A Punctuation Mark with Clout
April 2007 - Word Choices: Pairs that Puzzle
February/March 2007 - Concise Writing: Three Steps for Removing the Muck in Writing
January 2007 - Know Your Nouns -- Perplexing Plurals and Possessives
2006
December 2006 - Perfect Proofing: Ten Steps Towards Error-Free Proofing
November 2006 - Six to Nix: Grammar Rules to Leave Behind
October 2006 - Unblocking Writer's Block
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