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Drafting Tips Archive
- Does the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act still matter?
- Don’t bullet full paragraphs, and replace detailed content with graphics
- Don’t belabor the details–especially when they aren’t necessary
- Some easy ways to trim fat
- Instead of citing rules and requirements, tell us what you do (and other tidbits)
- More let verbs be verbs
- Nobody talks like that
- Keep your clauses orderly (even in the footnotes!)
- A negative plus a negative equals a positive
- Don’t weigh down committee profiles with ancillary information
- Someone needs the time and authority to edit
- Use defined terms effectively
- Lost in syntax
- Consolidate multiple references to the same person or thing in a single sentence
- Numbers and tables are made for each other
- Eliminate stilted language
- Gender neutral language–it’s more than just PC
- Streamline your language, round 2
- Be careful with your syntax
- Use your definitions
- Banish boring biographies
- What you do is usually more important than when you announced it
- Make sure your references are clear
- Clarity can make awkward truths a bit less awkward
- Give readers what they need, and omit what they do not need
- It may be correct, but is it awkward?
- Use a serial comma if you need it
- Your buzzwords should merely buzz, not scream
- Another case of “forget the formula; just give the answer”
- Streamline your language
- Use bullets correctly
- Make your argument
- In context, the finer points are not always relevant
- Consider whether you really need to include that date
- Maybe you would understand the problem if you read it out loud
- It may not all fit in one sentence
- Forget the formula; just give the answer
- Save “visibility” for traffic and weather reports
- There is already a word for that concept
- Your 10-K is not the place for a lesson in administrative law
- Anticipate and answer questions
- Use tables efficiently
- The only thing worse than a double negative is a double double negative
- Can you explain that, please?
- Specificity is not always helpful
- Excessive repetition does not enhance your protection
- Watch the placement of “however”
- Use comprise correctly
- Show your math
- Use a table to eliminate repetition
- Some cross-references are more confusing than helpful
- Weasel words, double negatives, and the kitchen sink; oh my!
- Definitions should be useful
- Meaningful cautionary language should be meaningful
- In a Q&A, avoid unfamiliar words in the question
- Give the cause first, then the effect
- Use bullets; avoid repetition
- Mix it up
- Nobody assumes you are relying on an old version of a statute
- Speak directly to your reader
- Headers are good, but do not overdo it
- Combine like concepts
- Get to the point
- A hodgepodge of minor mishaps
- Avoid “respectively”
- Use consistent terms; don’t lift contract language
- Prefer the active voice
- Make each piece of information stand out
- Be blunt
- Are we all in agreement?
- Watch your grammar and syntax; use bullets instead of sentence strings
- Don’t make your reader perform mental gymnastics
- Avoid jargon
- Don’t jump around
- Let verbs be verbs