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Less Wordiness, More Punch

Our weekly writing tip is designed to make you a better writer, two minutes at a time. Imagine hunkering down with a hotdog and a beer in the new Twins stadium next summer and hearing the ump yell, “BEGIN THE PLAYING OF BASEBALL BY THROWING THE BALL.” Hmmm. Doesn’t quite have the same punch as “PLAY …

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Pulling Data from the Web

If you’ve ever come across a web site that maintains skads of tabular data that you would love to download and manipulate, there’s an easy way to get it in Microsoft Excel. Here’s how. First, the website’s data has to be contained in a table. While most web designers now try to design sites without …

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Writin’ Tips’re Easy

Our weekly writing tip is designed to make you a better writer, one step at a time. Take two minutes to improve your writing skills and read this tip. It’s time to follow last week’s inaugural Off the Clock writing tip with a new drafting tip. These are supposed to be “two minute tips,” but …

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Making Miss Yates Proud

Last week I confessed my technology limitations and in doing so, launched practicelaw’s 2 minute tech tip series. Today I get to redeem my reputation. With this post we are launching our two minute writing tips series. And guess what? My writing skills far exceed my tech skills. I’ve taught legal writing to both undergraduates …

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Ever Present Never Present

I call today’s social media, particularly Twitter,  the “ever present never present.” It means that, for many of us, social media is ever present. It is always on, always tempting us to post, to like, to friend, to fan, to wave, to connect, and to think about all of these all the time, especially if …

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