Oregon Legal Research Blog…blog post at Legal Research Plus, “How to Use Legislative History to Teach Grammar ,” cites and links to Prof. Susan J. Hankin’s “Statutory Interpretation in the Age of…
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Yay for the Oxford Comma! (New York Times)
…ensued in The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that…
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Always Use the Serial (aka Oxford or Harvard) Comma in Legal Documents
You may or may not use a serial comma wherever (or nowhere) else you want, but woe to the person who leaves the serial comma out of legal…
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Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates
…to spread cheap reprints of popular sheet music. In the 1950s, a pirate music label named Jolly Roger issued recordings by Louis Armstrong and other jazz greats from LP’s that…
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Social Media Policies – and a $70,000 Multnomah County Job
…news releases, editorials, and web content on tight deadlines? Have you been a one-person video crew? Are you a stickler for grammar and punctuation? Do you know…
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Verisimilitude: Cops, Crooks, & Fictional Lawyers: Just the Facts, Ma’am
…or very light fiction. I’m willing to suspend disbelief, but not my need to respect the writer. Bad editing, typos, appalling grammar and syntax on the first page can…
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How to Blog in a Dog-eat-Dog World: Blogging Lesson Plans
…Words, Words, Words: The Internet is Literal!* Search engines, Search boxes, words, keywords, headings, titles.* Content: writing, grammar, style, and voice.* How often do I need to post?* Manners and…
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Blogging for Lawyers
…your blog-mates carefully. Finding people who will share the workload and can meet the standards you set, for content, style, grammar, etc. is hard. · If blogging as a team,…
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“The Book Thief”: A Great Read
…it. (The book could have used one more edit to clean up some pesky grammar and syntax problems, but I’m never hard on new writers, especially ones who tell such…
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New Oregon Legal Research Website
…who kept cool and calm while doggedly adding content, resolving grammar-wars, and in every other way being the website’s and my rock and laugh-maker. Thank you, Holly!!! Last, but not…