Effective Writing

Legal blogging uses digital tools + your knowledge/passion, to engage your reader in the law

The Audience

• not law specialists
• but educated and interested

“If you want to have a strong structure, build the foundations the right way.”
― Eraldo Banovac

In other words...

• plan your writing
• sections; paragraphs; sentences... not too long!
• each contains an idea
• signal when there's a shift: use headings

How would you explain complex statutory provisions to your audience?

Some tips

• aims of statute
• relevant part/s
• relevant provisions
• this is statutory interpretation!

Consider using diagrams to show relationships between provisions

Blogging gives you freedom as an author to use multimedia including images

Details count

• pay attention to grammar
• pay attention to hyperlinks: help the reader, & provide authority
• post-publication edit is possible

Grammar & spelling

• apostrophes & plurals
• plural/singular verb/noun agreement
• random capitalisation
• complete sentence
• ...vs run on sentence

For a selection of Australian legal blogs to read, see melissacastan dot wordpress dot com

@katgallow