Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Three random thoughts on the power of the word
I'm thinking a lot about the power of the written, and spoken word today for some reason. Here are two, brief thoughts:
- This morning I introduced myself to the new visitor on my floor of the law building. He turned out to be a US judge, who is teaching a course in the Melb LLM on effective written advocacy. He has judges coming in as guests in his course. What a fantastic idea. Sometimes, my law school really does rock. More people should study how to write, convincingly and persuasively.
- And along related lines: via Andrew Leigh: a speech by Michael Fullilove, of the Lowy Institute, on speech-making in foreign policy. On why speech-making is important.
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