Questions about improving writing skills- hi I’m a foreign trained attorney. English is not my first language. I want to improve my writing skills in all aspects. Has any of you taken any writing courses? If so, do you have any recommendation? Thanks!!

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Try reading (modern) novels that contain a lot of dialogue. It will help you hear in your head how the language is spoken while, most importantly, seeing it in writing. Do that for long enough, and you'll begin to see your own writing improve--even legal writing. (FWIW, my undergrad is in English.).

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I believe the most important aspect of writing in general is knowing how to organize your thoughts. When I tutored students in high school English classes who had never written papers before, I always had them outline their paper before they wrote it. This gave their writing a proper structure, and it enabled them to avoid many common writing mistakes.

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Strunk & White is a classic and a quick read.

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A1 is on point. For what it's worth, I'm a native English-speaker, but legal writing is its own art form I had to learn. I got decent at it by reading SCOTUS decisions and the actual briefs and amici associated with those decisions for what is considered "the best", but just reading case law and briefs in general will help. I took this approach and read ECJ cases to learn legal French/improve my French generally for work. Reading works! Who knew?! Lol

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