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To: Rambi who wrote (43677)	12/20/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

When I worked at the writing tutorial services, we used to get dozens of first year law students coming in with papers pertaining to some textbook-type "case" about 2 people who were shipwrecked and clinging to a board while floating in the ocean... One of the people pushes the other one off of the board or something to that effect.... My selective memory prevents me from recalling all of the details. The only thing that I can remember is that I got pretty sick of hearing about these two people and their board and started wishing that the board would just sink....;-}>

To: Rambi who wrote (43677)	12/20/1999 1:17:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

I have no idea, really, what good writing is. I think I can tell when something is poorly written, that is, something that is ungrammatical, or has misspellings, or has poor reasoning. There are a lot of rules about good writing that people I like don't seem to follow. As for legal writing, what I find most often isn't poor writing, but poor reasoning. Legal reasoning is a technique, and it's not one that one is born with, for the most part. I think of legal argumentation as something akin to plumbing. One perfects pieces of an argument, and then hooks them together in a series of arguments that logically follow from one end to the other, and if it's water-tight, then it will flow.