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- By — passive tense. Write in the active, with energy, and in a way that clearly assigns and accepts responsibility
- Of — nominalisation, adjectivisation
- Shall — fusty old language
- And/or — nervous laungage
- verb — complicated sentence constructions (because the simple verb (give, do, be, make, have) is usually accompanied by a noun that could itself have been a verb
- Without limitation — parentheticals that by definition do not add anything.
- Leverage — jargon that is designed to make the writer look wise, and not the reader enlightened.
- For the avoidance of doubt — writing that fails to avoid doubt in the first place.
- Writing for a judge — question motivation for writing this way.
- May — don’t confer entitlements that the parties had in any case. Don’t say a thing more than is necessary. Don’t overcommunicate. Less is more.