WordStyler helps lawyers and others to write better English, which helps lawyers to argue cases more persuasively.

In the foreword to Win More Cases: The Lawyer's Toolkit, High Court Justice Michael Kirby says "The big shifts in the way law is practised gives emphasis to written persuasion". Yet lawyers continue to ignore advice on how to write persuasively.  Time pressures explain why: "Advice that takes time to apply, or requires care or thought, will be ignored in the rush of events, deadlines, and judicial impatience" (Lutz, 1999).

To reduce the problem caused by lawyers' shortage of time, we have coded WordStyler to check your Word documents against 10 broad conditions of persuasive writing. These 10 broad conditions come from centuries of advice on persuasive writing, such as.

• choosing the wrong words undermines your credibility
• long-winded prose puts your reader in a bad mood
• vague words impede your reader's ability to understand the logic of your argument
• understatement persuades more than overstatement.

As well as searching for thousands of specific examples of each condition, WordStyler looks at the structure of your writing to find almost limitless examples that might fail any one of the 10 conditions. WordStyler then suggests better word choices.

We will start rolling-out WordStyler in 2008. In the meantime, 

• read Win More Cases to understand why we have developed WordStyler
• register your interest in WordStyler by contacting us using "WordStyler" as your subject line
• buy the complementary program, StyleWriter from EditorSoftware.

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