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Assignment Six
Assignment Six
Assignment Six
Writing in English
Christopher R. Kelley
Associate Professor of Law
University of Arkansas School of Law
ckelley.christopher@gmail.com
Assignment Number Six
Readings
Please read the following:
1. Pages 47‐53 in Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers;
2. Gerald Lebovits, Writing Carefully, Misused Modifiers Must Be Avoided, 8 N.Y.
State Bar Ass’n J. 64 (Jan. 2009);
3. Wayne Schiess, Squinting Modifiers, Legalwriting.net, Nov. 14, 2005;
4. Phillip M. Sparkes, Speaking of Elephants, Modifiers Were Misplaced, Kentucky
Bench & Bar, Sept. 2012, at 27; and
5. Scott Wood, Sharpening Your Legal Writing Skills, Survival Guide for New
Attorneys, Los Angeles Lawyer, Fall 2006, at 9.
Exercises
I encourage you to do the Enquist & Oates exercises on modifiers and parallelism that
are in the materials for this assignment. The answers follow the exercises.