January 18 is National Thesaurus Day, which “honors Peter Mark Roget, the author of Roget’s Thesaurus, who was born on this day in 1779.” Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, first published in 1852, was “a complete categorization and organization of each word by meaning.”
A thesaurus is defined as “a list of subject headings or descriptors usually with a cross-reference system for use in the organization of a collection of documents for reference and retrieval.” To put that into plain language, a thesaurus is an organized collection of words with similar meanings.
In recognition of the beauty of language, we offer below some resources to improve/enhance/revamp/reform/upgrade your legal writing:
Polish Your Writing Skills with Bryan Garner's 2020 Advice (ABA Journal, 12/23/2020)
10 Best Online Legal Writing Tools for Lawyers (Capitalize My Title, 2/13/2020)
7 Ways To Improve Your Legal Writing Skills (The Balance Careers, 11/20/2019)
7 Best Legal Writing Books Of All Time (Spartan Esquire, 9/16/2019)
10 Tips for Better Legal Writing (ABA, April 2019)
Burton’s Legal Thesaurus, last updated in 2013