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December 14, 2011

Gopen on Using the Passive Voice

Professor George Gopen, an English Professor at Duke University and the 2011 recipient of the Legal Writing Institute's Golden Pen Award, has published a short article in Law Practice Magazine about five times when you should use the passive voice.  Go on.  Have a look.  We know you want to. Otherwise you have to go back to grading papers.

Hat tip to The (New) Legal Writer

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