The briefcase became his carry-on ... Michael Jaime-Becerra is an associate professor of creative writing at UC Riverside and author of “Every Night Is Ladies’ Night.” ...

It didn’t matter that A Tale of Two Cities is among Dickens’s shorter novels; once we’d been introduced to the economy of writing, everything was tainted. How to trust each word from that ...

Writing letters in a business atmosphere is ... and who else is using this product or service? Conclusion. Make it brief.

Does writing a better brief increase an advocate's odds of prevailing before the Supreme Court? A new empirical study suggests that the quality of the writing (as opposed to oral argument ...

But—provided caution is exercised—some appellate specialists say there are still ways to incorporate the tool in the process of legal-brief writing. Joseph Regalia, an associate professor at ...

At each stage of the drafting process consider the following principles to assist in writing an effective appellate brief. Do start with a detailed outline. Always start with an outline.

The writing of Smart Brevity is refreshingly taut ... Oddly, Smart Brevity does not feel brief. Chapter 2 (14 pages, 2,195 words, an eight-minute read) is titled “Smart Brevity, Explained ...