PUBLICATIONS

• "Clear Understandings: A Guide to Legal Writing" (New York: Random House, with Ronald L. Goldfarb).
• "Editing Law Reviews: Some Practical Suggestions and a Moderately Revolutionary Proposal." Pepperdine Law Review 12 (1985): 371-379.
• "Legal Writing: An Obstruction to Justice." Alabama Law Review 30 (Fall 1978): 1-17.
• "Preface to Decisions, Decisions . . . A Practical Handbook for Judicial Writing" (Louise Mailhot and James Carnwath). Québec: Les Éditions Yvon Blais, 1998: xiii-xvii.
• "Saving the Literal," in Tom Gotsis (ed.), Statutory Interpretation: Principles and pragmatism for a new age, Education Monograph 4, Judicial Commission of New Sourth Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp. 177-215.
   

• The Architecture of Argument
  The Judicial Review: Journal of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales, 7 (September 2004): 39-56.
  Free Download : The Architecture of Argument (PDF 219 Kb)
   
• Writing to Be Read: or, Why Can't Lawyers Write Like Katherine Mansfield?
  The Law and Politics: 1992 New Zealand Law Conference. Conference Papers, vol. 2 (1993): 210-216. Reprinted in The Judicial Review, 3 (September 1997): 153-161.
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• James B. McMillan: Essays in Linguistics by His Friends and Colleagues (UAP, 1977, edited with I. Willis Russell).
• Literacy as Human Problem (UAP, 1982).
• Writing (Is an Unnatural Act) (Harper and Row, 1980).
• English as a Discipline: or, Is There a Plot in this Play (UAP, 1996).
• Moves Writers Make (Prentice-Hall, 1999).
• Editor of College English (1985-1992).
• Numerous articles in scholarly journals.