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Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercises (Paperback)
A guide to effective, clear, and powerful legal writing, encouraging writers to challenge conventions. Shows how to organize ideas, create and refine prose, sharpen editing skills, and clear language of jargon. Teaches straight thinking, featuring examples and four model documents. Softcover, hardcover also available. DLC: Legal composition. From the Inside Flap In Legal Writing in [...]
The Craft of Translation (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) (Paperback)
Amazon.com Review The nine essays collected in The Craft of Translation contain plenty of theoretical speculation about "working in the space between languages." Fortunately, though, most of the authors avoid getting bogged down in abstraction. Indeed, luminaries like William Weaver and Margaret Sayers Peden stick to a nuts-and-bolts analysis of exactly how one word gets [...]
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing (Paperback)
Review "A glorius celebration of literary scientists." -Harry Richie Mail on Sunday 30/03/2008″A sparkling anthology." -David Sinclair, Tribune 18/04/08″Beautiful volume…A labour of love." -Steven Poole, The Guardian 26/04/2008″For the science-savvy. it's like a gigantic prize-giving-cum-back-slap. For the science-phobic, it's a banner-waving call to come on in and give it a try." -Jonathan Gibbs, Metro London [...]
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