Wednesday, 30 September 2015

E.U Commission Writing Course - Lesson 3

Lesson 3
Class
Writing legal texts in plain English.
Sentence length, subject + predicate structure, using strong verbs, turning -ion nouns into verbs, avoiding "of" , making everything you write "sayable".


Homework
Read the article Drive for plain English from the New York Times in the link above.
For more golden rules see: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/garner/

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