Beyond the First Draft: Editing Strategies for Powerful Legal Writing by Megan McAlpin

Author:Megan McAlpin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781611636093
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2014-02-28T21:00:00+00:00

Ensure means to make certain that some thing occurs or some event takes place. Obviously, you need a thing or an event in the sentence for this one. Take a look at Example 4.2(s).

Example 4.2(s)

Ensure used correctly

Revision: To ensure that she was able to reach a settlement on behalf of her client, the lawyer spent a great deal of time researching the law.

(10) Beside/Besides. The difference between beside and besides, in a very literal way, is just a single letter. But these two words are much farther apart than their spelling might suggest. In fact, they mean entirely different things.

Beside means at the side of. Take a look at Example 4.2(t).

Example 4.2(t)

Beside used correctly

Revision: There was no one beside the defendant at the table.

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