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.
English 613
Law researchers 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year researchers; fellows
6 weeks, 9 hours
Third term: |
7 April
16 May 2024
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6 weeks
9 hours
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Time
The course starts on 8 April 2025
Tuesday
11:00-12:30
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.
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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