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Abbreviations in Text

(1)

Abhorrence of or Abhorrence For?

(1)

Above

(1)

Abstract Nouns

(1)

Accuracy

(2)

Active Verbs (see Active Voice.)

(1)

Active Voice

(1)

Actually

(1)

Ad Hoc

(1)

Adjectives

(1)

Adjectives After a Linking Verb

(1)

Adverbs

(1)

Affect or Effect?

(1)

Aforesaid

(1)

African American or African-American?

(1)

Ages

(1)

Agreement, Subjects and Verbs

(1)

Agreements, Written (see Contracts, Drafting.)

(1)

Agree to or Agree With?

(1)

Alliteration

(1)

All Around or All Round?

(1)

All Ready or Already?

(1)

All Right or Alright?

(1)

All Round or All Around? (see All Around or All Round?)

(1)

All, Singular or Plural?

(1)

All Together or Altogether?

(1)

Already or All Ready? (see All Ready or Already?)

(1)

Alright or All Right? (see All Right or Alright?)

(1)

Alternative

(1)

Although or Though?

(1)

Altogether or All Together? (see All Together or Altogether?)

(1)

A.M.

(1)

Ambiguity, Ways to Avoid

(2)

Amendment Capitalized?

(1)

Among or Between?

(1)

Analogous Cases

(1)

Analysis (see Legal Analysis.)

(1)

And

(1)

And/Or

(1)

Animals, Are They He, She, or It?

(1)

Answers to Complants

(2)

Antecedents

(1)

Ante- or Anti-?

(1)

Anybody, Singular or Plural?

(1)

Anyone, Singular or Plural?

(1)

A or An?

(1)

Apostrophes

(1)

Appeal

(1)

Appellate Briefs

(2)

Appendix

(1)

Application

(1)

Appositive

(1)

Argument Headings (see Point Headings.)

(1)

Argument Section

(2)

Articles, Grammar

(1)

Articles, Published

(1)

As a Matter of Fact

(1)

As if or as Though?

(1)

As or Like?

(1)

As Per

(1)

Assonance

(1)

Assure or Ensure? (see Ensure, Insure, or Assure?)

(1)

Asterisks

(1)

As Though or as if? (see As if or as Though?)

(1)

As to

(1)

At the Time That

(1)

At This Point in Time

(1)

Attorney or Lawyer?

(1)

Audience

(3)

Auxiliary Verbs (see Verbs, Auxiliary)

(1)

Background Facts

(1)

Bad News, Giving it

(2)

Bad News, Softening it

(2)

Bad or Badly?

(1)

Bar Graphs (see Graphics, Which Forms to Use, subsection 2)

(1)

Based on

(1)

Basically

(1)

Because or Since?

(1)

Beginning

(1)

Bending the Rules

(1)

Between or Among? (see Among or Between?)

(1)

Between You and Me or Between You and I?

(1)

Bills, Writing Them (see Legislation or Requests Forpayment)

(1)

Black

(1)

Bluebook

(1)

Bluebook Table

(13)

Boldface Type

(1)

Both

(1)

Both...and

(1)

Brackets

(1)

Breaking the Rules (see Bending the Rules.)

(1)

Brief Answers

(1)

Briefs

(1)

Bullet Points

(1)

Business Letters (see General Correspondence Letters.)

(1)

But

(1)

Can

(1)

Can Hardly or Can't Hardly?

(1)

Cannot or Can Not?

(1)

Can or Could? (see Verbs, Auxiliary, Sections 2 and 4.)

(1)

Can or May?

(1)

Capitalization

(2)

Captions

(2)

Case

(1)

Case Briefs

(2)

Case Names

(1)

Casual Language (see Colloquialisms.)

(1)

Certain

(1)

Certainly (see Certain.)

(1)

Charts

(1)

Chronological Organization

(1)

Circumlocution (see Conciseness, subsection 3.)

(1)

Citations

(2)

Citations, Basic Formats

(2)

Citations, Parallel

(1)

Citations, String

(1)

Clarity

(1)

Clauses

(1)

Clearly

(1)

Clear Writing (see Readability and Clarity.)

(1)

Client Letters

(1)

Closings for Letters

(1)

Coherence

(1)

Collaboration

(3)

Collective Nouns

(1)

Colloquialisms

(1)

Colons

(2)

Combining Words

(1)

Commas

(4)

Common Noun (see Nouns.)

(1)

Common Sense

(1)

Compare to or Compare With?

(1)

Comparison

(1)

Complaint

(2)

Completely

(1)

Complex Sentences

(1)

Compound Sentences

(1)

Computers for Research

(2)

Computers for Writing

(1)

Conciseness

(2)

Conclusions

(1)

Conclusory

(1)

Concrete Nouns (see Abstract Nouns.)

(1)

Conform to, Conform with, or Conform in?

(1)

Conjunctions

(1)

Connecting Words (see Transitions.)

(1)

Connections, Making Them

(1)

Connectors (see Transitions and Connections, Making Them.)

(1)

Connotation

(1)

Contact

(1)

Contend

(1)

Context, Clarifying

(1)

Context-Independent Writing

(1)

Continual or Continuous?

(1)

Contractions

(1)

Contracts, Drafting

(1)

Contrast

(1)

Corporations, They or it?

(1)

Correlating Conjunctions (see Conjunctions and Readability, subsection 7.)

100

(1)

Correspond to or Correspond with?

100

(1)

Could

100

(1)

Could Care Less or Couldn't Care Less

100

(1)

Could or Can?

100

(1)

Counterarguments, How to Handle

100

(1)

Courts, How to Address

101

(1)

Courts, They or it?

102

(1)

Credibility

102

(1)

Dangling Modifiers (see Modifiers, Dangling.)

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(1)

Dashes

103

(1)

Data

104

(1)

Deadlines, Meeting Them

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(4)

Deem

108

(1)

Definitely

108

(1)

Definitions, When to Include

108

(1)

Demand for Payment (see Requests for Payment.)

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(1)

Dependent Clauses

108

(1)

Design

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(1)

Desperation (see Help; Getting Started; Deadlines, Meeting Them; When to Stop; or Writing Blocks.)

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(1)

Dicta

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(1)

Dictation

111

(1)

Diction

112

(1)

Different From or Different Than?

112

(1)

Digression

112

(1)

Direct Objects (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 4.)

113

(1)

Discussion Section

113

(1)

Disinterested or Uninterested?

113

(1)

114

(1)

Drafting

114

(1)

Drafts

114

(1)

Due to

114

(1)

Dunning Letters (see Requests for Payment.)

115

(1)

During the Time That

115

(1)

Each

115

(1)

Editing

115

(3)

Editing Quotes

118

(1)

Effect or Affect? (see Affect or Effect?)

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(1)

E.G. (see Signals.)

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(1)

Elegant Variation

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(1)

Ellipses

119

(1)

Emotional Facts

119

(1)

Emotional Language

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(1)

Emphasis

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(3)

Emphasis Added (see Quotations, How to Punctuate, subsection 6.)

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(1)

End Result

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(1)

English as a Second Language

122

(1)

Ensure, Insure, or Assure?

123

(1)

Enumeration

124

(1)

Equity

124

(1)

Etc.

124

(1)

Everybody

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(1)

Everyone

125

(1)

Evidence

125

(1)

Ex-

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(1)

Exactness (see Word Choice, subsection 2.)

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(1)

Exclamation

125

(1)

Exclamation Point

125

(1)

Explanations, When and How Much?

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(1)

Explanatory Phrases

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Expository Writing

127

(2)

Extended Quotes

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(1)

Fact of the Matter, the

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(1)

Facts

129

(1)

Fact That, the

129

(1)

Farther or Further?

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(1)

Feel

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(1)

Fewer or Less?

130

(1)

Figurative Meaning

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(1)

Find

131

(1)

Flowery Language

131

(1)

Focus

131

(1)

Footnotes

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(1)

For

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(1)

Forceful Writing (see Emphasis and Positions of Emphasis

133

(1)

Format

133

(1)

Form Books, Use of

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(1)

Form Contracts, Use of

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(1)

Former

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(1)

For the Period of

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(1)

Further or Farther? (see Farther or Further?)

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(1)

Future Perfect Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 9.)

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(1)

Future Progressive Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 8.)

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(1)

Future Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 7.)

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(1)

Gender-Free Prose (see Sexist Language, Ways to Avoid.)

135

(1)

General Correspondence Letters

135

(8)

Generally

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(1)

Gerunds

143

(1)

Getting Orgaized

144

(1)

Getting Started

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(1)

Ghost Writing

145

(1)

Good or Well?

146

(1)

Grammar

147

(1)

Graphics, How to Use

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(5)

Graphics, When to Use

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(2)

Graphics, Which Form to Use

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(7)

Habits, Writing

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(1)

Hanged or Hung?

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(1)

Hardly

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(1)

Headings

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(1)

Headnotes

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(1)

Help

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(1)

Helping verbs (see Verbs, Tenses.)

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(1)

He or She?

163

(1)

He/She, When to Use?

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(1)

Hold

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(1)

Holdings

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(1)

Hopefully

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(1)

However

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(1)

Humor

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(1)

Hung or Hanged (see Hanged or Hung?)

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(1)

Hyperbole

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Hyphens

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Idiom

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I.E.

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If and When

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(1)

If or When?

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(1)

Impact

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(1)

Imperative Mood (see Verbs, Moods, subsection 3.)

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(1)

Imply or Infer?

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(1)

In Advance of

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(1)

Including, But Not Limited to

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(1)

Indented Quotes or Quotation Marks?

170

(1)

Indenting (see Quotations, How to Punctuate.)

170

(1)

Independent Clause (see Clauses or Sentence, Parts of, subsection 8.)

170

(1)

Indicative Mood (see Verbs, Moods, subsection 1.)

170

(1)

Indirect Objects (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 5.)

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(1)

Infer or Imply? (see imply or Infer?.)

171

(1)

Infinitive Verbs (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 13.)

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(1)

Informal Language (see Colloquialisms.)

171

(1)

-Ing Words (see Gerunds.)

171

(1)

In, Into, or in to?

171

(1)

Initials

171

(1)

In Order to or to?

172

(1)

In Question

172

(1)

Inserted Phrases (see Intrusive Phrases.)

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(1)

Instructions to the Jury (see Jury Instructions.)

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(1)

Insure or Ensure? (see Ensure, Insure, or Assure?)

172

(1)

Interjections

172

(1)

In Terms of

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(1)

Intrusive Phrases

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(1)

Inverted Order (see Sentence Structure subsection 4

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(1)

Irregardless or Regardless?

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(1)

Issue Statements

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(3)

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(1)

Italics

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(1)

It is Said That, It Would Seem That, It, Might be said That

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(1)

It is That

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(1)

It or They?

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(1)

Its or It's?

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(1)

Jargon

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(1)

Judges, How to Address

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(1)

Judgment

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(1)

Judicial or Judicious?

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(1)

Jump Cites (see Pinpoint Cites)

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(1)

Jury Instructions

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(3)

Jury, Plural or Singular?

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(1)

Key Terms

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(1)

Large-Scale Organization (see Organization, Large-Scale.)

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(1)

Latin Phrases

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(1)

Latter (see Former.)

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(1)

Law Review Articles (see Articles, Published and Scholarly Writing.)

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(1)

Lawyer or Attorney? (see Attorney or Lawyer?)

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(1)

Lay or Lie?

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(1)

Legal Analysis

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(4)

Legalese

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(1)

Legally Significant Facts

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(1)

Legal Writing Checklist

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(1)

Legislation

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(1)

Lengthy Quotes (see Extended Quotes.)

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(1)

Less or Fewer? (see Fewer or Less?)

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(1)

Letters

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(1)

Lie or Lay? (see Lay or Lie?)

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(1)

Like or As? (see As or Like?)

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(1)

Linking Verbs (see Verbs, Linking.)

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(1)

Lists, Structure of

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(4)

Lists, When to Use

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(1)

Literal Language

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(1)

Literally

197

(1)

Literal Meaning

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(1)

Logical Links

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(1)

Long Quotes (see Extended Quotes.)

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(1)

Looseleafs (see Updating The Law.)

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(1)

Lucidity (see Accuracy and Readability.)

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(1)

-Ly or Not?

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(1)

Main Sentences (see Topic Sentences)

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(2)

Managing Writers

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(1)

Maroon Book

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(1)

Matter of Fact, As A (see As a Matter of Fact.)

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(1)

May

201

(1)

May or Can? (see Can or May?)

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(1)

Meaning of Words

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(1)

Memorandum or Points and Authorities

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(1)

Memos

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(2)

Merely

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(1)

Might

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(1)

Misspellings, How to Avoid

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(1)

Models, Use of (see Forms, Use Of.)

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(1)

Modifiers

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(1)

Modifiers, Dangling

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(1)

Modifiers, Misplaced

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(1)

Modifiers, Squinting

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(1)

Moods

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(1)

Most Importantly

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(1)

Motions

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(1)

MS. Mrs., or Miss?

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(1)

Must

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(1)

Must or Should?

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(1)

Names or Generic Description?

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(1)

Narrative Writing

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(1)

Negatives

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(1)

Neither

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(1)

Nobody

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(1)

Nominalization

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(1)

None, Singular or Plural?

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(1)

No One

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(1)

Non or Non-?

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(1)

Nonrestrictive Phrases

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(1)

Nor

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(1)

Not

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(1)

Notes

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(1)

Notice of Motion

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(1)

Not Only...But Also

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(1)

Not So Much...As

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(1)

Nouns

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(1)

Noun String

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(1)

Numbers (see Numerals.)

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(1)

Numerals

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(1)

Object (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 3, 4, and 5.)

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(1)

Objective Writing

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(2)

Objectivity

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(1)

Object of a Preposition (see Prepositions and Sentence, Parts of, subsection 6.)

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(1)

Oblivious of or Oblivious To?

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(1)

Obviously

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(1)

Of Course

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(1)

Ok, O.K., or Okay?

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(1)

Omitting Words From Quotes

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(1)

One

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(1)

One-Sentence Paragraphs

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(1)

Only Where to Place

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(1)

On the Condition That or with the Condition That?

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(1)

Openings for Letters

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(1)

Opinion Letters

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(3)

Opinion or Advice?

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(1)

Opinions, Reading Them

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(1)

Optimal or Optimum?

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(1)

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Oral or Verbal?

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(1)

Oral Presentations

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(2)

Orders

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(1)

Organization

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(2)

Organization for Those Who Can't Outline

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(2)

Organization, it or They? (see Corporations, They or it?)

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(1)

Organization, Lagre-Scale

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Organization, Small-Scale

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Ornate Language (see Flowerly Language)

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(1)

Otherwise

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(1)

Outlines

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(2)

Overdone (see Flowerly Language, Modifiers, and Emotional Language)

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(1)

Overrefinement

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(1)

Padding

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(1)

Paragraph Blocks

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(1)

Paragraph Length

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(1)

Paragraphs

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(1)

Parallel Citations (see Citations, Parallel)

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(1)

Parallelism (see Parallel Structure; Lists, Structure or; and Emphasis.)

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(1)

Parallel Structure

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(2)

Paraphrase

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(1)

Parentheses

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(1)

Parentheticals

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(1)

Participles (see Verbs, Tenses.)

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(1)

Parts of a Sentence (see Sentence, Parts of.)

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(1)

Parts of Speech

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(1)

Passive Verbs (see Passive Voice and Active Voice.)

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(1)

Passive Voice

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(2)

Past Participles

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(1)

Past Perfect Tense (see Verbs, Tenses.)

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(1)

Past Progressive Tense (see Verbs, Tenses.)

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(1)

Past Tense (see Verbs, Tenses.)

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(1)

People or Persons?

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(1)

Per

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(1)

Percent or Percent?

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(1)

Perfectionism

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(1)

Perfect Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses.)

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(1)

Period or Question Mark? (see Question Marks.)

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(1)

Periods

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(1)

Person: First, Second, or Third?

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(1)

Personal References

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(1)

Persons or People? (see People or Persons?)

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(1)

Persuasive Letters

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(1)

Persuasive Writing

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(6)

Phenomena or Phenomenons?

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(1)

Phrases

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(1)

Pie Charts (see Graphics, Which Form to use, subsection 1.)

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(1)

Pinpoint Cites

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(1)

Plagiarism

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(1)

Plain English

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Plain Meaning

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(1)

Pleadings

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(1)

Plurals of Names

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(1)

P.M.

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(1)

Point Headings

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(1)

Point of View, Objective or Persuasive?

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(1)

Policy

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(1)

Polishing

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(1)

Polishing Process Checklist

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(1)

Positions of Emphasis

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(1)

Possessives

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(1)

Precision

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(2)

Predicate (see Sentence, Parts of.)

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(1)

Prefixes, When to Hyphenate (see Hyphens.)

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Prepositional Phrases

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(1)

Preposition, Ending a Sentence With

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(1)

Prepositions

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(1)

Present Participles (see Verbs, Tenses, subsections 2 and 3

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(1)

Present Perfect Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 3.)

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(1)

Present Progressive Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsection 2.)

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(1)

Present Tense (see Verbs, Tenses, subsections 1-3.)

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(1)

Pretrial Briefs

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(1)

Previous to

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(1)

Prewriting

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(1)

Prewriting Process Checklist

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(1)

Principles of Good Legal Writing

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(5)

Prior to

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(1)

Procedural or Substantive?

282

(1)

Process and Product Compared

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(1)

Procrastination

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(1)

Professional Posture

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(1)

Progressive Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses.)

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(1)

Pronoun Reference (see Ambiguity, subsection 2.)

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(1)

Pronouns

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(1)

Proofreading (see Polishing and Polishing Process-Checklist.)

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(1)

Proper Nouns

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(1)

Provided That

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(1)

Punctuating Lists (see Lists, Structure of.)

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(1)

Punctuation

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(1)

Purpose

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(1)

Quality as a Modifier

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(1)

Question Mark or Period?

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(1)

Question Marks

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(1)

Question Presented

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(1)

Quotation Marks

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(1)

Quotation Marks in Legislation (see Legislation.)

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(1)

Quotation Marks or Indented Quotes?

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(1)

Quotations, How to Punctuate

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(6)

Quotations, Long (see Extended Quotes.)

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(1)

Quotations, When to Use

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(1)

Quote within a Quote (see Quotations, How to Punctuate, subsection 5)

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(1)

Rambling

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(1)

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(1)

Readability

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(3)

Reader (see Audience.)

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(1)

Reading

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Reading Opinions (see Opinions.)

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(1)

Really

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(1)

Reasoning

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(3)

Recommendations

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(1)

Record, Citing to It

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(1)

Recur or Reoccur?

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(1)

Redundancy (see Conciseness. For related information, see Repetition.)

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(1)

References (see Citations; Footnotes; and Record, Citing to It.)

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(1)

Referents (see Antecedents.)

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(1)

Regardless or Irregardless?

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(1)

Rejection Letters (see Bad News, Softening It and Bad News, Giving It, subsection 1.)

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(1)

Reoccur or Recur? (see Recur or Reoccur?)

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(1)

Repetition

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(1)

Repetition of Sounds (see Alliteration and Assonance.)

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(1)

Requests for Payment

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(1)

Research as Writing

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(2)

Research Process Checklist

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(1)

Research Strategy Chart

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(3)

Respondent

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(1)

Restrictive Phrases (see That or Which?)

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(1)

Revising

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(1)

Revising Process Checklist

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(2)

Revising the Writing of Others (see Editing and Managing Writers.)

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(1)

Rewriting

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(1)

Rewriting Process Checklist

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(1)

Rhetorical Questions

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(1)

Rhymes

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(1)

Rough Drafts (see Writing and Writing Process.)

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(1)

Rules

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(2)

Said

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(1)

Salutations

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(1)

Sarcasm

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(1)

Saying No

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(1)

Scarcely

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(1)

Scholarly Writing

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(3)

Scholarly Writing Checklist

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(2)

Scholarly Writing Process

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(3)

Section

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(1)

Self-or Self?

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(1)

Semicolons

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(1)

Sentence Fragments

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(1)

Sentence Length

334

(1)

Sentence, Parts of

335

(4)

Sentences, Main (see Topic Sentences.)

339

(1)

Sentence Structure

339

(5)

Sentences with and (see Sentence Structure, subsection 2 and Lists, Structure of.)

344

(1)

Settlements Letters

344

(1)

Sexist Language, Ways to Avoid

345

(1)

Shall

346

(1)

S/HE

347

(1)

Shepard's

347

(1)

Short Sentences

348

(1)

Should

348

(1)

SIC

349

(1)

Signals

350

(1)

Simple Sentence

351

(1)

Simplicity

352

(1)

Since or Because? (see Because or Since.)

352

(1)

Single Quotation Marks

352

(1)

Singular or Plural?

352

(1)

Slang

353

(1)

Slanted Language (see Emotional Language.)

353

(1)

Slash

354

(1)

Smoothness (see Coherence, Emphasis, and Readability.)

354

(1)

354

(1)

Somebody

354

(1)

Someday or Some Day?

355

(1)

Someone

355

(1)

Sometime or Some Time?

355

(1)

So What?

355

(1)

Specificity (see Precision.)

355

(1)

Spelling Problems (see Misspellings, How to Avoid.)

356

(1)

Split Infinitives

356

(1)

Squinting Modifiers

356

(1)

Standard of Review

357

(1)

Statement of Facts

358

(1)

Statement of the Case

359

(1)

Statistics

360

(1)

Statute Drafting (see Legislation.)

360

(1)

String Cites (see Citations, String.)

360

(1)

Structure (see Sentence Structure or Organization, Large-Scale.)

360

(1)

Stuffy Language (see Plain English, Flowery Language, and Tone.)

360

(1)

Style

361

(1)

Subheadings (see Point Headings and Headings.)

362

(1)

Subject (see Sentence, Parts of, subsection 2.)

362

(1)

Subject-Verb Agreement

362

(1)

Subject-Verb Combinations

362

(1)

Subjunctive Tenses (see Moods.)

363

(1)

Subordinating Conjunctions (see Conjunctions and Subordination.)

363

(1)

Subordination

363

(1)

Substantive or Procedural? (see Procedural or Substantive?)

363

(1)

Such

363

(1)

Summary of the Argument

364

(1)

Support

364

(1)

Syllogisms

365

(2)

Tables (see Graphics, Which form to Use, subsection 5.)

367

(1)

Tact (see Bad News, Softening it; Tone; and Tone in Letters.)

367

(1)

Taking Notes (see Notes.)

367

(1)

Tenses (see Verbs, Tenses.)

367

(1)

Terms of Address for Courts (see Judges, How to Address.)

367

(1)

Terms of Art

367

(1)

That Needed?

368

(1)

That or Which?

369

(1)

The

370

(1)

Theirs or Their's?

370

(1)

There is or There Are?

370

(1)

There Is...That

371

(1)

They or He or She?

371

(1)

This

371

(1)

Though or Although?

372

(1)

Time Management

372

(2)

Titles of Judges (see Judges, How to Address.)

374

(1)

To All Intents and Purposes

374

(1)

To Be

375

(1)

Tone

376

(3)

Tone in Letters

379

(2)

Topical Organization

381

(1)

Topic Sentences

381

(1)

Totally (see Completely.)

382

(1)

Tough, Sounding That Way

382

(1)

Transitions

383

(1)

Trial Briefs

384

(1)

Unclear Meaning

385

(1)

Underlining

385

(1)

Understandability (see Clarity and Readability.)

386

(1)

Undoubtedly

386

(1)

Uninterested or Disinterested? (see Disinterested or Uninterested?)

386

(1)

Unique

386

(1)

Unity (see Coherence.)

386

(1)

Unless

387

(1)

Unobtrusive Definitions

387

(1)

Until Such Time as

388

(1)

Unto

388

(1)

Updating the Law

388

(1)

Utilize

389

(1)

Utterly

389

(1)

Vague Words (see Ambiguity, Ways to Avoid; Precision; and Word Choice.)

389

(1)

Variety

389

(1)

Verbal or Oral? (see Oral or Verbal?)

390

(1)

Verbosity (see Conciseness.)

390

(1)

Verbs

390

(2)

Verbs, Auxiliary

392

(2)

Verbs, Irregular

394

(1)

Verbs, Linking

395

(1)

Verbs, Moods

395

(2)

Verbs, Participles

397

(1)

Verbs, Tenses

397

(4)

Verb Tenses, Different Ones in the Same Text

401

(1)

Versatility

402

(1)

Very

402

(1)

Virgule (see Slash.)

402

(1)

Virtually

402

(1)

Viz

403

(1)

Voice

403

(1)

Voice, Active or Passive?

403

(2)

Was or Were?

405

(1)

405

(1)

Well or Good? (see Good or Well?)

405

(1)

When am I Done? (see When to Stop.)

405

(1)

When of If

405

(1)

When or Where?

406

(1)

When to Stop

406

(1)

Where or When? (see When or Where?)

407

(1)

Whether

408

(1)

Which or That? (see That or Which?)

408

(1)

Whoever or Whomever?

408

(1)

Who or Whom?

409

(1)

Wills, Drafting

409

(2)

Woman, Lady, or Female?

411

(1)

Word Choice

411

(2)

Wordiness (see Conciseness.)

413

(1)

Wordy Phrases

413

(1)

Would

413

(1)

Writer's Block (see Writing Block.)

414

(1)

Writing

414

(1)

Writing Block

414

(1)

Writing on the Word Processor (see Computers for Writing.)

415

(1)

Writing Process

416

(1)

Writing to Other Attorneys

417

(1)

Yet

418

(1)

You

419

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