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OSB Bulletin Legal Writer Article Archive
Bulletin Issue Archive
2013
May
Taken to Task: Touch Up
Your "T" Words
By Suzanne E. Rowe
April
Cutting the Clutter: Spring
Cleaning for Writing
By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
February/March
Pure Sentences: Punctuation Free
By Suzanne E. Rowe
January
Readers' Pet Peeves: A Brief Collection of Annoyances and Goat-Getters
By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
2012
December
Future Shock: Writing in a Brave New World
By Suzanne E. Rowe
November
A Matter of Style: About That Legal Writing
By Megan McAlpin
October
F-Words: The First
Flames of Fall
By Suzanne E. Rowe
August/September
Happy Punctuation Day!
Readers' Haiku Celebration
By Suzanne E. Rowe
July
Adjective Order:
A Quick, Easy Guide
By Suzanne E. Rowe
June
"G " is for Graft:
A Gaggle of Great "G" Words
By Suzanne E. Rowe
May
Primer on Pronouns:
Common Mistakes
By Elizabeth Frost
April
Commas for My Class
By Suzanne E. Rowe
February/March
The Problem with Shall
By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
January
Right as Rain: Remarkable and Revealing "R" Words
By Suzanne E. Rowe
2011
December
Web-based Authorities: Reliable Resources for the Wired Writer
By Elizabeth Ruiz Frost
November
Spell Czech: Amusing Mistakes Your Computer Won't Catch
By Suzanne E. Rowe
October
Drawing with Words: Creating Clear, Colorful Writing
By Megan McAlpin
August/September
Let the Festivities Begin! National Punctuation Day
By Suzanne E. Rowe
July
Building Bridges: Connecting Islands of Ideas
By Suzanne E. Rowe
June
The Formula: Becoming — or Hiring — a Capable Legal Writer
By Rebekah Hanley
May
Celebrating Dependence: The Joys of Subordinate Clauses
By Megan McAlpin
April
What's Your Point?: Tips for Writing Clearly
By M.H. Sam Jacobson
February/March
Notes on Quotes: When and How to Borrow Language
By Rebekah Hanley
January
Painful Prose: The Difficulty of Writing
By Suzanne E. Rowe
2010
December
Back to Basics: Subjects, Verbs, Complete Sentences and Active Voice
By Suzanne E. Rowe
November
Readers Write: Two More Years with Legal Writers
By Suzanne E. Rowe
October
Interesting Eyes: Word Choices V
By Suzanne E. Rowe
August/September
Are You Dense? Editing Obtuse Writing
By M.H. Sam Jacobson
July
Which Is That? Restrictions for Clarity
By Suzanne E. Rowe
June
Five Tools for Writing Fixes: Stocking the Legal Writer’s Toolbox
By Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
May
Taskus Interruptus: Good Writing Requires Concentration
By M.H. Sam Jacobson
April
Conquering the Colon: The Adventures of Advanced Punctuation
By Suzanne E. Rowe
February/March
Proper Placement: The Humor of Misplaced Modifers
By Suzanne E. Rowe
January
Appalling Etiquette: Writing As a Professional
By
Suzanne E. Rowe
2009
December
Constructive Criticism: A Generous Bonus in Down Economy
By
Rebekah Hanley
November
Punctuation You Can Learn to Love: Six Simple Steps to Correct Commas
By Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff
October
Perfect Tenses: The Timing of Verbs
By Suzanne E. Rowe
August/September
Lessons from the Magic Kingdom: A Legal Writer Reflects on Summer Vacation
By Rebekah Hanley
July
Running On? Life Support for Sentences
By Suzanne E. Rowe
June
Clear or Confusing? When Repetition Works (and Doesn’t)
By Suzanne E. Rowe
May
Word Choices IV: Too Close for Comfort?
By Suzanne E. Rowe
April
Word Choices III: Verb pairs that puzzle
By Suzanne E. Rowe
February/March
Making it Plain: In love with legalese?
By Megan McAlpin
January
Resolutions: A new writing process for the new year
By Rebekah Hanley
2008
December
A Shopper’s Guide: Gifts for your legal writer
By Suzanne E. Rowe
November
Signaling Support: Linking Citation to Text
By Suzanne E. Rowe
October
Silencing the Novelist Within: Squelching Creative Writing
By Megan McAlpin
August/September
Mea Culpa: Mistakes of a Writing Column Writer
By Suzanne E. Rowe
July
Reader-Friendly Transitions: Showing the way from here to there
By Suzanne E. Rowe
June
Keep it Simple: ‘Short and Sweet’ Brings Clarity to Legal Writing
By Suzanne E. Rowe
May
E-Writing tips: 4 btr comm
By Suzanne E. Rowe
April
Writing with Oregon Style: Gee, What Are We to Do?
By Suzanne E. Rowe
February/March
Problems with Pronouns: Replacing Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
By Suzanne E. Rowe
January
Word Choices II: More Pairs that Puzzle
By Suzanne E. Rowe
2007
December
A Parallel Universe: Keeping the Grammatical World in Order
By Suzanne E. Rowe
November
Devilish Details: Legal Writing is Precise Writing
By Suzanne E. Rowe
October
The Beauty of the Verb: Creating a Picture in Every Sentence
By M. H. Sam Jacobson
August/September
Abuse of Discretion: Beheadings, Widows and Orphans, Oh My!
By Suzanne E. Rowe
July
Writing with Clarity: Finding and Fixing the Passive Voice
By Megan McAlpin
June
Finessing Gender Pronouns: When “He” or “She” Just Won't Do
By Suzanne E. Rowe
May
Comma Power: A punctuation mark with clout
By Suzanne E. Rowe
April
Word Choices: Pairs that Puzzle
By Suzanne E. Rowe
February/March
Three Steps for Removing the Muck in Writing
By Joan Malmud
January
Know Your Nouns: Perplexing plurals and possessives
By Suzanne E. Rowe
2006
December
Perfect Proofing: 10 steps towards error-free documents
By Suzanne E. Rowe
November
Six To Nix: Grammar rules to leave behind
By Suzanne E. Rowe
October
Unblocking Writer's Block: Moving ideas from head to page
By Suzanne E. Rowe
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