This lecture focuses on techniques that lawyers can use - whether writing court papers, office memoranda, or letters providing status reports or counseling to clients - to make their writing clearer and more persuasive. These techniques focus on putting the lawyer, as writer, in the place of the reader and writing in a manner that will make it easier for the reader to follow the lawyer’s train of thought to the conclusion that the lawyer would like the reader to reach. These techniques include presenting issues in an orderly, logical manner; using headings and subheadings to guide readers; keeping readers oriented as they work their way through a document; using transitional phrases and tables to highlight issues; and techniques for keeping documents short and easy to read.