WRITING GUIDELINES: GENERAL PRINCIPLES & RULES

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. They are divided into GENERAL PRINCIPLES . and RULES . The former are for you to contemplate and consider; the latter are for you to obey, blindly if necessary. I have very strong views about the process of WRITING , and I demand a very serious commitment on your part.

Writing Guidelines – David Post June, 2013 Page -4-Reading your own work from your reader’s perspective means learning how toclear your head of everything you have learned about the subject matter from having worked on the paper,

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