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George Orwell, Orwellian, language, plain English, legal writing, concise, succinct, prolix, gobbledygook, Newspeak, 1984, Oceania, Winston Smith, politics, clichés, trite, passive voice, active voice, jargon, legalese, foreign words, euphemisms, evasion

issue statement, brief, question presented

Lawyer, attorney, court, errors, unprofessionalism, legal writing, brief, research, misrepresentation, facts, organization, wordiness, analysis, verbosity, legalese, gobbledygook, clarity, bar, discipline, suspension, Rule 11, sanctions, judges, civility, plagiarism

Plagiarism, legal writing, lawyer, attorney, copy, document, brief, filed, court, form book, form file, analysis, client, professionalism, Lane, Iowa

legal writing, punch, strong verbs, nominalizations, concrete, specific, direct, strings of prepositional phrases, long sentences, vary sentence beginnings

Strunk and White, The Elements of Style, William Strunk, E.B. White, grammar, prescriptive grammar, writing style, descriptive grammar, wordy, wordiness, legal writing, legal writers, books on legal writing

Abraham Lincoln, legal writer, succinct, poetry, rhetorical devices, logic, precision

Student ratings, evaluations, teaching legal writing, instructors, professors, faculty, teaching, university, college, personnel, law school, survey, bias, grades, negative effects, consumer, grade inflation, rigor, peer evaluation, teaching portfolio

legal writing, split infinitive, split verb parts, sentence, conjunction, because, repeat word, one-sentence paragraph, there are, it is, myth, rule, hobgoblin, English, syntax, grammar, idiomatic

Civility, Legal Writing, Legal Profession, Rambo Litigation, Lawyers, Attorneys, Sanctions

women, men, male, female, judges, language, gender-neutral, inclusive, sexist, gender-biased, gender-inclusive, framing theory, empirical, feminist

Active voice, passive voice, legal writing, changing passive voice to active voice, when passive voice is appropriate

Cliche, trite, legal writing, judge, lawyer, opinion, strong language, direct language

Church, state, religion, government, United States, England, United Kingdom, U.K., Britain, establishment, disestablishment, McCreary County, Van Orden, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Constitution, Ten Commandments, Kentucky, Texas, Muslim dress, Denbigh High School, Islam, school

Student ratings, student evaluations, law school, bias, negative effects, teaching, professor, instructor, law student, legal writing, grades, preparation for class, respect students, unpopular topics

English usage problems, legal writing, lawyers' writing, begs the question, "as such," media, criteria, indicia, data, deleting the relative pronoun "that," dangling modifiers

citation, bluebook, ALWD

Student ratings, evaluations, legal writing, instructors, professors, faculty, administrator, teaching, university, personnel, law school, survey, bias, grades, critique, personality, negative effects, consumer, grade inflation, rigor, peer evaluation, portfolio

Pornography, women, violence, harm, men, free speech, First Amendment, children, parents, Ashcroft v. ACLU

Writer's block, brief, procrastinate, legal writing, outline, rough draft, lawyer

legal writing

Legal writing, repeating words, elegant variation, anadiplosis, epistrophe, antanaclasis, rhetorical device

Conversion, human reproduction, eggs, semen, embryo, zygote, gamete, ovum, pre-embryo, sperm, cells, fertility clinic, infertility, Irvine fertility scandal, quasi-property, property, cells, relational, conversion, IVF, in vitro, fertilization, Moore v. Regents of the University of California

Women justices, supreme court, gender-neutral language, gender bias, masculine pronouns, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Alito, Breyer, Kennedy, Thomas, Kagan, Roberts, Scalia

Termination, older worker, salary, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, ADEA, sociology, psychology, public policy, morale, Wirtz Report, human capital, downsize, Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins, Marks v. Loral, disparate impact, proxy theory, proxy doctrine, reasonable factor other than age

Law school, women, men, student, female, male, self-esteem, competent, female faculty, women professors, male faculty, professors, questions, participate in class, study, survey, minorities, law school, supportive

Conversion, human reproduction, eggs, semen, embryo, zygote, gamete, ovum, preembryo, genetic, sperm, fertility clinic, child support, birth control, consent, quasi-property, property, cells, conversion, IVF, in vitro, fertilization, Moore v. Regents of the University of California

Lawyer, attorney, court, errors, unprofessionalism, legal writing, brief, research, misrepresentation, organization, clarity, wordiness, verbosity, legalese, court rules, grammar, spelling, punctuation, citation, civility, plagiarism, bar discipline, suspension, Rule 11, sanctions, judges

Lawyers, kill all the lawyers, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Dick, Cade, rebels, revolution, Othello, Richard II, Kornstein