Bryan A. Garner - Articles By Garner

Articles By Garner

• "What Makes for a Successful Mash–up Neologism?", New York Times Magazine, Feb. 28, 2010, p.16.
• "A Writing Group Is a Great Way to Help Your Prose", Student Lawyer, Jan. 2006, pp. 10–11.
• "A Recap of 2005 in Grammar, Usage & Writing", 2006 Green Bag Almanac 19–28.
• "What Separates the Good Prose from the Bad?", Student Lawyer, Nov. 2005, pp. 10–11.
• "How Well Does He Write? John Roberts Pens Lucid, Adeptly Punctuated Opinions – with Occasional Congestion", The Legal Times, 12 Sept. 2005, p. 62.
• "Make the Time to Enjoy These Classics on Law", Student Lawyer, Sept. 2005, pp. 12–13.
• "Although IRAC Works for Exams, Avoid It in Practice", Student Lawyer, May 2005, pp. 10–11.
• "Don‘t Know Much About Punctuation: Notes on a Stickler Wannabe", Texas Law Review, vol. 83, pp. 1443–52 (2005).
• "Follow These 10 Writing Tips to Succeed at Your Law Firm", Student Lawyer, Mar. 2005, pp. 12–13.
• "The Art of Boiling Down: James Fitzjames Stephens as Drafter and Lexicographer", Green Bag, Autumn 2005, pp. 27–35.
• "Judges on Effective Writing: The Importance of Plain Language", Michigan Bar Journal, Mar. 1994, pp. 326–27, repr. in Michigan Bar Journal, Feb. 2005, pp. 44–45.
• "Can You Beat Journal Editors at Word Picks?", Student Lawyer, Jan. 2005, pp. 12, 14.
• "Editor‘s Column: Bryan Garner Counsels Appellate Lawyers and Judges on Effective Legal Writing (interview by Dorothy Easner)", The Record, Winter 2005, pp. 20–22.
• "The Year 2004 in Grammar, Usage & Writing", Green Bag, Winter 2005, pp. 201–06.
• "A Secret to Success: Never Fail to Brief the Cases You Study", Student Lawyer, Nov. 2004, pp. 14, 16.
• "Keeping a Journal Every Day Can Help Hone Your Writing", Student Lawyer, Sept. 2004, pp. 10, 12.
• "Learn about Writing from Experts Who Wrote These Classics", Student Lawyer, May 2004, pp. 10–11.
• "Making Peace in the Language Wars", Green Bag, Spring 2004, pp. 227–35.
• "Great Lawyers Seek the Highest Level of Writing Competence", Student Lawyer, Mar. 2004, pp. 10–11.
• "Law Review Pages Are (Rife or Ripe?) with Wrong Words. Can You Find Them?", Student Lawyer, Jan. 2004, pp. 11–12.
• "Legal Lexicography", Green Bag, Winter 2003, pp. 151–61.
• "Set Your Cites on this Great Style Debate", Student Lawyer, Nov. 2003, pp. 10–11.
• "Footnoted Citations Can Make Memos and Briefs Easier to Comprehend", Student Lawyer, Sept. 2003, pp. 11–12.
• "Put the Action in Your Verbs, and Your Verbs in Active Voice", Student Lawyer, May 2003, pp. 10–11.
• "Writing Instructors Need Your Support, Because Schools Give Them So Little", Student Lawyer, Mar. 2003, pp. 10–11.
• "Test Your Skills Against Editors of Law Reviews", Student Lawyer, Jan. 2003, pp. 9–10.
• "As a Lawyer, You Will Need to Know and Use Standard English", Student Lawyer, Nov. 2002, pp. 10, 12.
• "Effective Writing Requires Lifelong Commitment to Honing the Craft", Student Lawyer, Sept. 2002, pp. 10–11.
• "Demand Letters Are Designed to Produce Results for Your Clients", Student Lawyer, Apr. 2002, pp. 9–10.
• "Take this Quiz to Gauge Your Grammar Skills", Student Lawyer, Feb. 2002, pp. 10, 12.
• "Judges on Briefing: A National Survey", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 8, pp. 1–34 (2001–2002).
• "Word Definitions Can Vary Greatly Between the Legal and the Nonlegal", Student Lawyer, Dec. 2001, pp. 10–11.
• "Students Who Want to Be Good Writers Can Learn a Lesson from Tiger Woods", Student Lawyer, Oct. 2001, pp. 10–11.
• "S/he/it Happens, but Prose Can Be Gender Neutral in Better Ways", Student Lawyer, Apr. 2001, pp. 8–9.
• "“Writing Stutterers” Can Learn to Relax by Not Worrying about the 'Rules'", Student Lawyer, Feb. 2001, pp. 12–13.
• "Afterword", Court Review, vol. 38, p. 28 (2001).
• "Clearing the Cobwebs from Judicial Opinions", Court Review, vol. 38, pp. 4–8, 10, 12 (2001).
• "Take this Quiz to Determine Your Knack for Word Use", Student Lawyer, Dec. 2000, pp. 8–9.
• "How Serious Is Your School about Writing?", Student Lawyer, Oct. 2000, pp. 16, 18.
• "Using Certain Words Can Be Insensitive — even If the Dictionary Does Not Agree", Student Lawyer, Apr. 2000, pp. 14–15.
• "To Answer Questions about Grammar and Word Usage, Consult the Proper Sources", Student Lawyer, Feb. 2000, pp. 12, 14.
• "The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Wright", Texas Law Review, vol. 76, pp. 1587–1605 (1998). (Reprinted and updated in Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 7, pp. 1–25 (2000).
• "The Citational Footnote", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 7, pp. 97–106 (2000).
• "How Can You Take Your Writing from Mush to Masterpiece?", Student Lawyer, Dec. 1999, pp. 11–12.
• "Writing Well in Law Is a Perpetual Struggle for Clarity", Student Lawyer, Oct. 1999, pp. 16–17.
• "Introduction", SMU Law Review, vol. 52, p. 657 (1999).
• "The Three Parts of a Brief", Trial, Mar. 1999, pp. 92–93.
• "The Art of Legal Writing", For the Defense, Dec. 1998, pp. 19–21.
• "Debriefing Your Briefs", Trial, Oct. 1998, p. 85.
• "Unclutter the Text by Footnoting Citations", Trial, Nov. 1997, pp. 87–88.
• "Using the Flowers Paradigm to Write More Efficiently", Trial, May 1997, pp. 79–80.
• "Issue–Framing: The Upshot of It All", Trial, Apr. 1997, pp. 74–76.
• "Reconstructing Lindley Murray‘s Bibliophilic Legacy", Bookman‘s Weekly, 13 Jan. 1997, pp. 73–74.
• "Ten Questions for Bryan Garner", The Scrivener, Fall 1996, pp. 1, 6–7.
• "Remembering Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee", Review of Litigation, vol. 15, pp. 169–75 (1996).
• "The Uncivil Lawyer: A Scourge at the Bar (with Judge Thomas Gibbs Gee)", Review of Litigation, vol. 15, pp. 177–201 (1996).
• "Plain Language: An Excerpt from A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage", Michigan Bar Journal, vol. 74, pp. 1062–65 (1995).
• "The Deep Issue: A New Approach to Framing Legal Questions", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 5, pp. 1–39 (1994–1995).
• "The Legal–Writing Skills Test", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 5, pp. 107–40 (1994–1995).
• "Two Publishers Reprint Historical Law Dictionaries", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 5, pp. 167–68 (1994–1995).
• "Planning an In–House Writing Workshop?: Reflections from a Veteran CLE Instructor", CLE J. & Register, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 5–11 (1993).
• "In Praise of Simplicity but in Derogation of Simplism", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 4, pp. 123–24 (1993).
• "Briefs to the Supreme Court", in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 91 (1992).
• "The Style of Supreme Court Opinions", in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 607–11 (1992).
• "The Lawyer‘s 'Imply'", in Proceedings of the American Dialect Society' (1992).
• "On Beginning Sentences with But", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 3, pp. 87–93 (1992), repr. in Michigan Bar Journal, Oct. 2003, pp. 43–44.
• "Colloquiality in Law", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 3, pp. 147–48 (1992).
• "Insane Committees", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 3, p. 151 (1992).
• "Three Steps Toward Plain Language", The Subpoena (San Antonio Bar Ass‘n), pp. 10–11 (April 1992).
• "An Excerpt from The Elements of Legal Style: Rooting Out Sexism", Michigan Bar Journal, vol. 70, pp. 942–43 (Aug. 1991).
• "An Approach to Legal Style", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 2, pp. 1–35 (1991).
• "The Wright–Garner–Maugans Correspondence on Complimentary Closes", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 2, pp. 83–99 (1991).
• "Alliteritis", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 2, p. 145 (1991).
• "Vocabulary–Building in the First Circuit", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 2, pp. 150–55 (1991).
• "On the Name of the 'SJLW'", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 2, pp. 160–63 (1991).
• "Word–Karma", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 16 (21 Jan. 1991).
• "Excerpts from A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage", Michigan Bar Journal (October 1990).
• "A Scholar‘s View of Book Preservation", in Proceedings of the Conference on the Global Responsibility of Law Librarians, p. 113 (Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1990).
• "An Uninformed System of Citation: The Maroonbook Blues", Scribes Journal of Legal Writing, vol. 1, pp. 191–96 (1990) (debating Prof. Douglas Laycock).
• "The Missing Common–Law Words", in the State of the Language, 1990, ed. C. Ricks & L. Michaels (Univ. of California Press, 1990), pp. 235–45. (Essay reviewed in Legal Linguistics, The Legal Times, 23 April 1990, p. 54).
• "Smelling of the Inkhorn: Vocabulary–Building with Judge Selya", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 16–17 (15 Feb. 1990).
• "Pronunciation‘s Scofflaws", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 13, no. 10, p. 12 (16 Oct. 1989).
• "Novelties in Lawyer Talk", The Appellate Advocate, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 9–12 (Summer 1989), repr. The Scrivener, pp. 3–6 (Winter 1989).
• "Going Hence Without Day", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 13, no. 10, p. 12 (16 Oct. 1989).
• "Trippingly Off the Tongue: Doublets and Triplets of the Legal Idiom", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 14–15 (18 Sept. 1989), repr. in Maricopa County Lawyer, vol. 9, no. 5, p. 9 (May 1990).
• "The Language of Appellate Advocacy", Litigation, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 39–42, 58 (Summer 1989), repr. in 'Appellate Practice Manual 188–96 (ABA, 1992).
• "The Oxford Law Dictionary: A Historical Dictionary for English–Speaking Jurisdictions", The Law Librarian, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 55–56 (Aug. 1989).
• "Lapsus Memoriae", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 13, no. 5, p. 9 (15 May 1989).
• "Cruel and Unusual English: When Judges Play with Words", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 12–13 (20 Feb. 1989).
• "On Pun Control", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 12, no. 11, p. 15 (21 Nov. 1988).
• "The Word on the Street", ABA Journal, vol. 74, p. 105 (Dec. 1988).
• "On Legal Style", ABA Journal, vol. 74, pp. 101–02 (Oct. 1988).
• "The Hearsay Rule and Its Exceptions (with Barbara M.G. Lynn)", University of Houston CLE Program, How to Offer and Exclude Evidence (April 1988) .
• "A Grammatical Grotesquerie in Texas Practice", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 12 (18 July 1988), repr. DALS Diary, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 13–15 (Aug. 1988).
• "Testamentary Depositions and Other Curiosities", Dallas Bar Headnotes, vol. 12, no. 5, p. 13 (16 May 1988).
• "Finding the Right Words", Michigan Bar Journal, vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 762–64 (1988).
• "Latinate Past Participles as Metrical and Stylistic Variants" in Shakespeare, Language and Style, vol. 19, pp. 242–47 (1986).
• "UTmost Interviews John Simon", UTmost, pp. 36–40 (Winter 1984).
• "Learned Length and Thund‘ring Sound: A Word–Lover‘s Panegyric", Verbatim, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1–3 (Winter 1984).
• "Shakespeare‘s The Taming of the Shrew, V.II.54, The Explicator, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 16–17 (Spring 1983).
• "Etymological Overlap: Analogous Derivatives in English", Verbatim, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 20–21 (Autumn 1983).
• "Latin–Saxon Hybrids in Shakespeare and the Bible", Studies in the Humanities, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 39–44 (June 1983), repr. in a Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama (Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1987), abridged as "Shakespeare's Latin–Saxon Hybrids", The Shakespeare Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 40 (Winter 1983).
• "Shakespeare‘s Learned Language", The Shakespeare Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 40 (Winter 1983).
• "Shakespeare‘s Latinate Neologisms", Shakespeare Studies, vol. 15, pp. 149–70 (1982), repr. in a Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama (Amsterdam: John Benjamins 1987), abridged as "Shakespeare as Latinate Wordmaker", The Shakespeare Newsletter, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 40 (Winter 1983).
• "A Note on Holofernes‘ Pronunciamentos", American Notes & Queries, vol. 20, nos. 7 & 8, pp. 100–01 (Mar./Apr. 1982).
• "Meretricious Words, or the Quean‘s English", Verbatim, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1–5 (Winter 1982).
• "A Note on the Ambiguity of Macbeth‘s 'Intrenchant'", American Notes & Queries, vol. 20, nos. 3 & 4, pp. 39–43 (Nov./Dec. 1981), repr. in American Notes & Queries, vol. 21, nos. 3 & 4, pp. 36–40 (Nov./Dec. 1982).