PLAIN LANGUAGE FOR LAWYERS - PART 2
Professor: Rita Tineo
CONTENTS
Review of Plain Language General Rules
- Sentence length
- Paragraph Organization
- Punctuation
- Legal Vocabulary to use and lawyerisms to avoid
- How to spot bad construction
- Review of Editing Techniques
- Nominalizations to be replaced
- Verb consistency control
- Passive voice; use or avoid usage?
Rewriting paragraphs practice
This course is a workshop to practice writing using Plain Language Standards. We are going to do a lot of redrafting to correct mistakes and also each participant will be encouraged to plan a drafting piece of their own guided by the facilitator.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Plain English for Lawyers. Richard Cl Wydick
- Plain Language for Lawyers. Michéle Aspray
- Language on Trial. Plain English Campaign
- Legal Writing in ¨Plain English . Bryan Garner
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage. Bryan Garner.