Marilyn Bush LeLeiko
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Marilyn Bush LeLeiko
@LawWriting
Writing skills training & coaching for lawyers, accountants, & other professionals, including paralegals, managers & staff. Effective Email programs
New York เข้าร่วม Mart 2009
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@dickiebush Please send me the prompt you mentioned. Thanks!
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ChatGPT is overhyped.
That's what I told myself after 2 weeks of trying (and failing) to use it well.
Turns out, I was just a poor prompt writer.
But after spending hundreds of hours tinkering, I've finally cracked it.
And now, it's my personal writing assistant.
Here's how:
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And more than that, sometimes it is the best way to start a sentence. #legalwriting twitter.com/judgedillard/s…
Judge Stephen Dillard@JudgeDillard
@Profepps @jscottkey It is acceptable to begin sentences with conjunctions.
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Yes, especially good short stories and narrative nonfiction (in short form, like magazine articles). Reading good models of brevity is key -- because briefs can't (or shouldn't) be like novels. #legalwriting twitter.com/Miz_Rosenberg/…
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Brief-writing tip: If there's one background fact that really should lead to a win for your side, keep your brief short to make it stand out rather than repeating it page after page after page. The repetition in the 50-page brief I'm reading today lessens the impact.
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If the string of citations really helps your case, perhaps you might explain how in at least a parenthetical? Or did you cite 6 inapt cases just to make me look them all up?
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Marilyn Bush LeLeiko รีทวีตแล้ว
I tell my new clerks that I love crappy first drafts. From a crappy first draft we can figure out where we need to go. #legalwriting twitter.com/aznchew/status…
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Important twitter.com/joelklettke/st…
Joel Klettke@JoelKlettke
Dear every single person who writes reports of any kind for clients: PLEASE include an "Executive summary" section that sums up your core recommendations in plain English. It's probably the only thing most of 'em will read with focused attention.
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First, before writing, delete name from TO line. twitter.com/morningmoneybe…
Ben White@EconomyBen
One of life's most important skills is writing a nasty, angry email, letting it sit for a minute, then deleting it and moving on.
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Great thread on upward feedback: how to give editing feedback to someone senior twitter.com/jaime_asantos/…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda: “You write until the rust comes out of the faucet and it’s clear water. Then you write down the clear water.” #writing
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A 36-line deep paragraph is a wall of text that no reader should ever have to climb. #plainlanguage
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"Change horses in midstream", "beat a dead horse", etc. — dictionary coverage for non-native speakers. twitter.com/PeterSokolowsk…
Peter Sokolowski@PeterSokolowski
If you've never thought about the difference between a dictionary written for non-native speakers and one made for native speakers, take a look at these entries.
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And in legal writing, don't just drop the parenthetical thought into a footnote. twitter.com/editormark/sta…
Editor Mark (@[email protected])@EditorMark
If a thought is parenthetical, maybe you ought not include it. If you include it, maybe it ought not be parenthetical. #amediting #writing
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Never install any major software updates (operating system, PowerPoint, Keynote) on the day of a presentation. Or when traveling. twitter.com/zimmerjohn/sta…
John Zimmer🇨🇦✊@ZimmerJohn
Never do this on the day of a presentation! mannerofspeaking.org/2017/11/12/nev…
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#EzraPound, #BTD, said good writers "keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear." Note the accuracy part.
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Point-first writing: The last thing you want to do is force the reader to ask ‘What’s this all about and where is it going?’ tips.slaw.ca/#.WgXOr7hKvSY.…
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Spell check isn't enough. Best typo 2017 from Beethoven bio: Being dead did not stop him . . . twitter.com/plantypal/stat…
Polly Smith@plantypal
Best typo 2017
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Pre-tenure faculty members: writing full of dense impenetrable sentences choked with polysyllabic prose. Too much legal writing can be described the same way. @racheltoor twitter.com/chronicle/stat…
The Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle
"They’d earned their stripes, and in doing so, had made their work unpalatable to any except the few in their own speciated niches." chroni.cl/2m9B3Gz
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