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Fighting the Fog: Writing Clearly for Lawyers

Dense writing can obscure good arguments. The more complex an issue is, the more clearly we need to write about it. This six-week course focuses on the three ‘c’s of clear scholarly writing in law: cohesion, coherence, and concision.

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English 613


Law researchers 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year researchers; fellows

6 weeks, 9 hours

Third term:

7 April

16 May 2024

6 weeks

9 hours

Time 


The course starts on 8 April 2025

Tuesday

11:00-12:30

 


 

Place & Instructor


Villa Salviati

Sala dei Levrieri

Mary Greenshields

 

Course description

Dense writing can obscure good arguments. The more complex an issue is, the more clearly we need to write about it. This six-week course focuses on the three ‘c’s of clear scholarly writing in law: cohesion, coherence, and concision. It also considers if and when to use nominalisation, how to “tell a story” in legal writing, and how to construct paragraphs that help the reader to follow your argument.  

Teacher's bio

Mary Greenshields is a teacher of English for Academic Purposes and Coordinator of the Centre for Academic Literacies and Languages at the EUI. An experienced academic librarian (MLIS, University of Alberta) and post-secondary instructor, she also holds an MA in English (University of Lethbridge), and is a current doctoral candidate (RMIT). She has published articles, edited monographs, and non-academic writing, and enjoys working with writers to hone their skills and allow their voices to shine through. 

 

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