CCTR 544. (Co)Writing Techniques for Legal Drafters .
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CCTR 544
(Co)Writing Techniques for Legal Drafters
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Credits: 1.5
Offered by: Global & Strategic Comm. (School of Continuing Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Drafting of legal documents in a clear and concise manner in unilingual, bilingual and multilingual contexts. The processes and procedures for (co)writing plain yet precise language will be the focus of practical exercises in (co)writing. Familiarity with the stylistic resources of both source and target languages will be studied with a view to making (co)writing outcomes reliable, idiomatic and readable.
- Prerequisites: CCTR 530
- Restriction: Only open to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Translation or by Departmental Approval.
- This is a bilingual course.
- Early opening registration date for CS courses only.
- **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
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