Identify the types of legal documents often written by non-lawyers
Understand the risks of trying to sound like a lawyer
The importance of structure and organisation
- Organisation at the document level
- Organisation at the paragraph level
- Organisation at the sentence level
The “Fallacy of Chronology”
Principles of organisation at the document level
How to strike the right balance between saying too much and saying too little
Techniques for clearer and more effective writing
- Link ideas through introductions and transitions
- Use verbs to create crisper and more effective sentences
Techniques for emphasising important points
What can you do about weak points in your argument?
Recognise when to be forceful and when to be cautious
- Understatement and overstatement
- How to deal with uncertainty
Determine how and when to use definitions and defined terms
Understand why consistency is important
Learn how to use templates and forms, and the limits of cutting and pasting
Re-writing and editing
Guidelines and techniques for the bilingual writer
- How to write for the translator
- Recognise words/phrases English-to-Arabic translators often get wrong
- Recognise words/phrases Arabic-to-English translators often get wrong
Meta-information
- Information communicated by the overall visual format of a document
- How to use formatting to enhance the effectiveness of your content
- How to format a bilingual English/Arabic document for maximum clarity and effectiveness
Proof-reading
- Why is it important?
- Techniques for effective proof-reading

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