Improve Your Legal Research and Writing
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How does a lawyer snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? I thought I would share this media release from a legal writing company that suggests some answers.
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By Ed Serenson on 18/09/2008
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More discounts for members
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More discounts available for people who join my site
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By Ed Serenson on 14/06/2008
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2 ebooks now available
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I am pleased to announce a discount for members on a just-released ebook called Win More Cases: The Lawyer's Toolkit, plus a free eBook on how to write clearly.
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By Ed Serenson on 30/04/2008
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Legal writing master class
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For our lawyer visitors, check out this master class in Hong Kong in May 2008.
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By Ed Serenson on 18/03/2008
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Poor spellers to be shamed by university
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To pressure Education Ministers into raising teaching standards, a London academic is publishing spelling errors that he has collected during years of marking university exams.
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By Ed Serenson on 13/08/2007
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Beware poetry contest rip-offs
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Several websites purport to be running poetry "contests" that are really only rip-offs.
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By Ed Serenson on 19/07/2007
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BBC debate on spelling
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Should we simplify spelling? That was the topic of a BBC debate, which you can read here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6250184.stm
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By Ed Serenson on 11/07/2007
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Have students' writing skills really declined?
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I read an article today saying "many students are ‘appallingly bad’ when it comes to their written English". Email and text messaging were blamed.
Then I read another article that expressed the same concerns about students' poor writing skills: "very, very many of them [law students] are hopelessly, deplorably unskilled and inept in the use of words to say what they mean, or, indeed, to say anything at all".
But the author of this second article could not have blamed email and text messaging. Those things had not been invented yet. The second article was written in 1938 (and updated in 1954). So, have students' writing skills really changed? Are email and text messaging really to blame?
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By Ed Serenson on 24/03/2007
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Bloggers wanted
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We're looking for more volunteers to contribute to this blog.
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By Ed Serenson on 19/03/2007
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'John and I' or 'John and me'?
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Someone I know gets confused about "I" and "me", so here's a tip to remember the difference.
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By Ed Serenson on 12/03/2007
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