No one really enjoys proofreading, but in business, failing to catch those spelling and grammar errors may lose you a job or a client. Businesses will judge you by your written communications, so proofread like your job depends on it (because it probably does).
Spell Check Isn’t The Complete Answer
Legal writing combines artistry and wisdom: weaving critical facts into the fabric of legal theory coupled with knowing the most effective way to communicate so that the finished product fits the needs of your audience. Nineteenth-century English theologian Charles Haddon Spurgeon got it right when he said: “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”1
46 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 149 (Fall 1984)
Pamela Samuelson[+]
Copyright 1984 by Pamela Samuelson
George Orwell once wrote that `[g]ood prose is like a window pane.’[1] What I take Orwell to have meant by that remark is that when people read good prose, it makes them feel as if they’ve `seen’ something (whatever the author was trying to convey) more clearly.[2] Put another way, if a writer can induce his or her reader to feel that the reader would have come to the same conclusion that the author reached had the reader done his or her own investigation of the subject matter, the writer has achieved a kind of `window pane’ effect on the reader.
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Call for Papers
05/02/2013
The South African Student Law Review (SASLR) is pleased to formally announce the acceptance of submissions for its inaugural issue. Submissions are open to any law student, at any level of study, at any university in Africa. SASLR has been established to provide law students with a platform from which students can formulate and express original, relevant and constructive thought. The SASLR is an
academic forum that fosters greater dialogue on subjects that extend further than the confines of any law school curriculum.
Students are therefore challenged to discover the boundless freedom afforded to thought and perspective, and are encouraged to deliver such thought in a compelling, scholarly manner.
The primary aims of this journal is to instil a sense of belief and confidence in students, an understanding of the myriad possibilities of the application of the law, and to facilitate greater interaction between all who participate on the topics and fields to which students will devote their lives in humble service. The journal welcomes articles on any topic of law that is relevant, original, well researched,
and that preferably does not form part of the traditional law school curriculum. For topic suggestions, news and updates, please refer to the SASLR website.
Final Submission Deadline: 1 August 2013
Submission Guidelines: Depending on the year of study, article manuscripts should range from 5 pages to 25 pages.
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