Posted by Writing Specialist
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10/12/2010 at 12:53 PM
The former RWUSOL Dean of Students, now retired, Dennis Tonsing, has a recent post on his blog Write Right! you may want to take a look at if you think judges won't care about your writing skills as long as you have "good ideas." Tonsing writes:
"In Florida, U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell denied a motion to dismiss without prejudice, saying that it was 'riddled with unprofessional grammatical and typographical errors that nearly render the entire motion incomprehensible.'”
Yikes!
Here is a link to Tonsing's blog entry:
http://www.dennistonsing.com/blogs/dennis/...
Posted by Writing Specialist
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10/04/2010 at 11:48 AM
Professor Wayne Schiess at the University of Texas School of Law emailed this bit of trivia to the Legal Writing Institute list serve for the "typography nerds out there." :-) Evidently, research shows that lower case letters are easier to read than all caps. This research has caused NYC officials to begin changing all street signs to lower case. Huge ticket price for this change!
"Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs from the all-caps style used for more than a century to ones that capitalize only the first...
