Now in its fourth edition, Wydick's book stands the test of time. With its affordable price, this book is the most cost-effective teaching tool available to legal writing instructors. It teaches the legal profession how to learn and practice basic techniques of good writing through examples from briefs, statutes, and other legal writings. It also provides practical exercises so that readers may try out their new-found insights. 
The fourth edition includes a subsection on syntactic ambiguity and a subsection with ideas for drafting statutes, rules, and other formal documents, as well as updated endnotes and many new exercises. 
Plain English for Lawyers has proven itself to be one of the most essential tools for law students and practicing lawyers alike, and Wydick's humorous demonstrations of legalese endear this book to both students and faculty.

Plain English for lawyers

Wydick, Richard C.

Legal Education

Carolina Academic Press

Considered "the most practical book of its kind, following in the fine tradition of Strunk &amp; White's THE ELEMENT OF STYLE

With over a quarter of a million copies of the first two editions in print, Plain English for Lawyers is probably the most popular law school text today, speculates the New York Times. This updated and enlarged third edition will continue to serve the legal writing field for many years to come. Over thirty reader's exercises illustrate and reinforce the principles of plain English. New to this edition is a chapter on punctuation.As in earlier editions, Wydick uses examples from briefs, statutes, opinions, and other legal writings to show how the legal profession can use basic techniques of good writing.

Plain English for Lawyers

Carolina Academic Pr

Carolina Academic Press will publish the fifth edition of Richard Wydick’s Plain English for Lawyers in time for use in the fall of 2005. Wydick’s little book has been a favorite of law students, legal writing teachers, lawyers, and judges for over 25 years.Last January, the Legal Writing Institute gave Wydick its Golden Pen Award for having written Plain English for Lawyers. The Legal Writing Institute is a non-profit organization that provides a forum for discussion and scholarship about legal writing, analysis, and research. The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all of the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. Its membership also includes law teachers from other nations, English teachers, and practicing lawyers.The LWI award states: “Plain English for Lawyers . . . has become a classic. Perhaps no single work has done more to improve the writing of lawyers and law students and to promote the modern trend toward a clear, plain style of legal writing.” In 2003 Wydick retired after 32 years on the law faculty of the University of California, Davis. But he still teaches his favorite course — a seminar in advanced legal writing for third-year law students. For the past eight summers he has also lectured at the International Legislative Drafting Institute presented in New Orleans by the Public Law Center, a joint venture of Tulane and Loyola law schools. There the audience consists of lawyers and non-lawyers from abroad who earn their living drafting legislation in many different languages. “Teaching at the Institute,” Wydick says, “is a precious opportunity to learn how much we English-users have in common with people who write laws in other languages.” How will the fifth edition of Plain English for Lawyers differ from its predecessors? Wydick promises that it will remain a little book, small enough and palatable enough not to intimidate over-loaded law students. “Most of the text will remain the same,” Wydick says, “but in the past seven years I’ve learned some new things about writing in English, and I want to share that with the readers.” In addition, the exercises at the end of the chapters will be different (a welcome change for long-time teachers who are tired of the old ones). Finally, the teacher’s manual will include additional exercises that teachers can give to students who want or need extra practice.

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Plain English for lawyers

Plain English for lawyers

Plain English for Lawyers

Plain English for Lawyers