Transcription of WRITING GUIDELINES: GENERAL PRINCIPLES & RULES
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WRITING guidelines : GENERAL PRINCIPLES & RULES1. Professor David G. Post2. Beasley School of Law, Temple University Last Revised: June, 2013. There is nothing more important in the practice of law than your ability to put together quality written work. I'm happy to help you work on your WRITING , but be forewarned: WRITING is difficult, for everyone at least, everyone I know (or know of) who does it well. If you think you can produce top-quality written work without pain and hard work you are either (a) incredibly gifted or (b) mistaken. When asked whether she enjoyed WRITING , Dorothy Parker replied No . I enjoy having written.. When asked whether he found WRITING difficult, Red Smith replied: Not at all you just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.. Please read these guidelines through carefully.
Writing Guidelines – David Post June, 2013 Page -2-I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES “Good prose is like a windowpane” [George Orwell, “Why I Write”] The point of legal writing is not to make the simple complicated – for example, by using
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