Oregon Legal Research Blog…now in its 2nd edition, we find out from her “ The Legal Writer” column, “Let the Festivities Begin!” column that September 24th is: National Punctuation Day!…
Search Results for: label/Punctuation
Published on:
Semicolons, Nuance, and Contract Law
Everyone has a punctuation bugaboo; mine is the semicolon*. So I liked this post at Adams Drafting: Excerpt: “Perhaps because they’re aware that I’ve had occasion to consider…
Published on:
Where’s Victor Borge When You Need Him?
…as punctuation seems popular, but other bookish, typesetting, or literary costumes will be seen, if not heard. (Aren’t most people blissfully quiet while they read?) What: Elements of Style fundraiserWhen:…
Published on:
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…
Published on:
The devil is in the commas….like usual
While Laura is off and out, I’ve come out of the lurker’s shadows to keep the blog home fires burning. Today, a note on commas and legal writing….
Published on:
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…
Published on:
Yay for the Oxford Comma! (New York Times)
…hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks. What…
Published on:
Babysitting and the Law
** Please see the June 2009 update (or click on the Babysitting label). ** This is the time of year when the babysitting questions appear with increasing…
Published on:
A Human Book, not an eBook: What if You Could Borrow a Legal Scholar (from your library) for an Hour?
…prejudice I feel is invisible. It’s more a stigma attached to the label,” Langley said in a telephone interview from the university campus. “We’re thought of as evil, callous and…
Published on:
Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My
…that local arrives at its final destination, it may be wise to label all this research—preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and for goodness’ sake, pronouncements from Donald Trump— with a black-box warning:…