The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, Volume 10

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Cover Page


Table of Contents


From the Editor


Articles

Communicating with Juries: How to Draft More Understandable Instructions
Peter M. Tiersma

Is Plain Language Better? A Comparative Readability Study of Court Forms
Maria Mindlin

A Crack at Federal Drafting
Joseph Kimble

The Story of a Famous Promissory Note
Duncan MacDonald

Robert Traver as Justice Voelker — The Novelist as Judge
Eileen Kavanagh


The “Best of” Series

Sentences That Do Too Much
Howard Darmstadter

Explaining with Examples
Howard Darmstadter

Promissory Notes
Howard Darmstadter


Book Notices: Beverly Ray Burlingame


Cumulutive Index 1-10


Notes on Contributors


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