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CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART I WHY LAWYERS WRITE POORLY

1 Does Bad Writing Really Matter?

2 Don't Make It Like It Was

PART II THE PROCESS OF WRITING

3 Ten Steps to Writing

4 Of Dawdlers and Scrawlers, Pacers, and Plungers: Getting Started and Overcoming Blocks

5 The Mechanics of Getting It Down: From Quill Pens to Computers

6 Lessons from a Writing Audit

7 Lawyers as Publishers: Words Are Their Product

PART III MANAGING YOUR PROSE

8 Writing the Lead

9 Form, Structure, and Organization

10 Wrong Words, Long Sentences, and Other Mister Meaners

11 Revising Your Prose

12 Making Your Writing Memorable

NOTES

USAGE NOTES

AN EDITING CHECKLIST

EDITING EXERCISES

SUGGESTED REVISIONS TO EDITING EXERCISES

REFERENCE WORKS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

INDEX