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The Supreme Guide to Writing

The Supreme Guide to Writing


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Learn to become a great writer and master modern grammar rules with the U.S. Supreme Court justices as your guide.In The Supreme Guide to Writing, law professor Jill Barton cuts through competing advice to detail definitive grammar rules based on the nation's unequivocal authority: the U.S. Supreme Court. The book details a revolution in legal writing, with the justices progressing beyond the drab and technical for the deft and lyrical. With the first-ever analysis of 10,000 pages of Court opinions, the book pinpoints grammar and style rules that the justices follow--and describes the outdated rules they leave behind. Today's Court casts aside formality in favor of pop-culture references, contractions, and approachable language. In addition to establishing grammar and style rules, the book illustrates best practices with hundreds of examples of the justices' most brilliant sentences from the past several years. With step-by-step instructions, the book describes how to emulate the justices' writing styles by breaking down their strategies and techniques. It shows how Justice Elena Kagan lands amusing quips and weaves together down-to-earth analogies, how Justice Neil Gorsuch executes witty retorts, and how Chief Justice John Roberts pens unforgettable lines with understated style and humor. The best writing appears effortless, but it also takes tremendous effort. Legal writing even more so. The Supreme Guide to Writing provides a nonpartisan look at how the justices present their words to the world.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I ~ Punctuation Marks Chapter 1. Apostrophes Chapter 2. Brackets Chapter 3. Colons Chapter 4. Commas Chapter 5. Ellipses Chapter 6. Em-dash Chapter 7. En-dash Chapter 8. Emoticon and Emojis Chapter 9. Exclamation marks Chapter 10. Hyphens Chapter 11. Parentheses Chapter 12. Periods Chapter 13. Question marks Chapter 14. Quotation marks Chapter 15. Semicolons Chapter 16. Spaces Part II ~ Words Chapter 17. Adjectives and Adverbs Chapter 18. Alliteration and Repetition Chapter 19. Because vs. Since Chapter 20. Conjunctions Chapter 21. Modifiers Chapter 22. Names and Titles Chapter 23. Negatives Chapter 24. Numbers Chapter 25. Prepositions Chapter 26. Pronouns Chapter 27. Qualifiers and Intensifiers Chapter 28. Relative Pronouns: When, Where, Who, Whom, and Whose Chapter 29. Short Words-and Sentences Chapter 30. Split Infinitives Chapter 31. Transitions Chapter 32. Verbs Closing

About the Author :
Jill Barton has published two legal writing textbooks and hundreds of news articles as a journalist for the Associated Press, reaching more than a billion readers worldwide. She currently serves as a professor and the legal writing director at the University of Miami School of Law. She authored So Ordered: The Writer's Guide for Aspiring Judges, Judicial Clerks, and Interns. And she coauthored The Handbook for the New Legal Writer, a popular law school textbook now in its third edition, that aims to demystify the process of legal writing and inspire beginning and experienced legal writers. She has worked as an appellate judicial clerk, conducted workshops for regional and national law firms, and presented her work at conferences nationally, becoming a leading voice in the conversation on the best practices in writing.

Review :
Taking a unique approach as a DIY instructional guide on the art and craft of writing, Jill Barton's The Supreme Guide to Writing: Become a great writer with the U.S. Supreme Court as Your Guide from the Oxford University Press is essentially a complete, comprehensive, and thoroughly 'reader friendly' in terms of content, organization and presentation. This is a brief and straightforward reference work that, given it is based on US legal writing, is refreshingly accessible and potentially useful for the non-US lawyer. The rules identified are to the point and of general application: keep sentences short; use the active voice; brevity is key. Very few books offer pointed, nuts-and-bolts guidance-as opposed to general advice-on legal writing. This book does. It is directed mainly at an US audience, but there may be tips that those wishing to improve their writing styles may profit from.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780197754368
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 157 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0197754368
  • Publisher Date: 20 Dec 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 408 gr

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