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Legal Style

The Justice as Writer: Antonin Scalia, Master Stylist
By Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard (February 29, 2016)
Elena Kagan Is the Best Writer on the Supreme Court
by Mark Joseph Stern, Slate (March 1, 2016)
Judges' Writing Styles (And Do They Matter?)
By Judge Richard Posner, 62 University of Chicago Law Review 1420 (1995)
How to Write: A Memorandum from the Curmudgeon
By Mark Herrmann, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law, pp. 1-8 (2006)
The Writing Side of Legal Writing
By Noah Messing, The Art of Advocacy, pp. 245- 263 (2013)
Typography in the U.S. Reports and Supreme Court Voting Protocols
By B. Rudolph Delson, NYU Law Review (October 2001)
The Prose (Polished and Painful) of the Supreme Court
By Macy Halford, The New Yorker (August 7, 2011)
Celebrating the Powerful Eloquence of Justice Robert Jackson
By Brian A. Garner, ABA Journal (October 1, 2016)

Zadie Smith's Rules for Writers
By Zadie Smith, The Guardian (February 22, 2010)
Write Till You Drop
By Annie Dillard, The New York Times (May 28, 1989)
Not Knowing
By Donald Barthelme, Not Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme (1997)
What Beyonce Taught Me
By Zadie Smith, The Guardian (October 29, 2016)
Mother Tongue
By Ian McEwan, The Guardian (October 12, 2001)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Meets Ernest Hemingway
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The New York Times (July 26, 1981)
The Art of Good Writing
By Jonathan Swift, Financial Times (January 21, 2011)

The Elements of Style by William Strunk; E. B. White; Roger Angell (Foreword by)
Call Number: Reserve PE1408 .S772 2000
Publication Date: 1999
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
Call Number: Writing Reserve PE1421 .P56 2014
Publication Date: 2015
Style (4th) by Joseph M. Williams; Gregory G. Colomb
Call Number: Writing Reserve PE1421 .W5455 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword
Call Number: Writing Reserve P301.5.A27 S96 2012x
Publication Date: 2012
Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
Call Number: PN145 .D74 2019
Publication Date: 2019
The Right Word by William F. Buckley; Samuel S. Vaughan (Editor)
Call Number: 820.31 B924bu
Publication Date: 1996

The Source of Bad Writing
by Steven Pinker, Wall Street Journal (September 15, 2014)
The Needless Complexity of Academic Writing
By Victoria Clayton, The Atlantic (October 26, 2015)
Smart Writing
By Barton Swaim, The Weekly Standard (September 3, 2012)
Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers
By Noah Berlatsky, The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 11, 2016)
Professor Veblen
by H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp. 265-75 (1949)
When Ideas Get Lost in Bad Writing; Attacks on Scholars Include a Barbed Contest With 'Prizes'
By Dinitia Smith New York Times (February 27, 1999)
Writing, Typing, and Economics
By John Kenneth Galbraith, The Atlantic (March 1978)

The Birth of "The New Yorker Story"
By Jonathan Frazen, The 50s: The Story of a Decade (2015)
The Birth of "New Journalism"
By Tom Wolfe, New York Magazine (February 14, 1972)
How to Write About Africa
By Binyavanga Wainaina, Granta 92: The View From Africa, (January 19, 2006)
The Writing Life: The Point of the Long and Winding Sentence
By Pico Ayer, Los Angeles Times (January 8, 2012)