Writing/Style tip o’ the day
I am trying to read a page or two of Bryan A. Garner’s “The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style” every day, and I’ve decided to post interesting writing-style tips that I come across here at SA. So, with that said, here is the first tidbit I found useful:
The em dash may suggest drama; the colon may suggest a cause-effect relationship; the semi-colon may suggest that the clauses are of equal importance; parentheses may suggest that what they contain is of lesser importance.
I think this is a fairly accurate description of how many readers interpret these four punctuation marks, and is something we lawyers should keep in mind while crafting our motions/briefs.
