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Assignment Seven
Assignment Seven
Writing in English
Christopher R. Kelley
Associate Professor of Law
University of Arkansas School of Law
ckelley.christopher@gmail.com
Assignment Number Seven
Readings
• Please read Chapters 8 (Avoid Language Quirks) and 9 (Punctuate Carefully) in Richard
C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers.
Exercises
• Please do the Enquist & Oates exercises on commas, semi‐colons, and colons. These
exercises contain punctuation rules and exercises for each rule. The answers are included.
Optional
Consider doing the following exercises and reading the following articles:
1. Enquist & Oates exercises on concrete subjects and action verbs;
2. Gerald Lebovits, The Pause That Refreshes: Commas, N.Y. State Bar Ass’n Journal,
Mar./Apr. 2002 at 64;
3. Gerald Lebovits, The Pause That Refreshes: Commas–Part 2, N.Y. State Bar Ass’n
Journal, May 2002 at 64;
4. Gerald Lebovits, Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes: Legal Writing Grammar–Part I, N.Y.
State Bar Ass’n Journal, Nov./Dec. 2007, at 80;
5. Gerald Lebovits, Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes: Legal Writing Grammar–Part II, N.Y.
State Bar Ass’n Journal, Jan. 2008, at 80;
6. Gerald Lebovits, Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes: Legal Writing Punctuation–Part I, N.Y.
State Bar Ass’n Journal, Feb. 2008, at 64;
7. Gerald Lebovits, Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes: Legal Writing Punctuation–Part II,
N.Y. State Bar Ass’n Journal, Mar./Apr. 2008, at 64;
8. Gerald Lebovits, Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes: Legal Writing Punctuation–Part III,
N.Y. State Bar Ass’n Journal, May 2008, at 64;
9. Gerald Lebovits, Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes: Usage Controversies–Part I, N.Y. State
Bar Ass’n Journal, June 2008, at 64; and
10. Gerald Lebovits, Do’s, Don’ts, and Maybes: Usage Controversies–Part II, N.Y.
State Bar Ass’n Journal, July/Aug. 2008, at 64.