Lights, Camera, Action: The Power of Verbs. Writing Strategies to Ensure Your Action Words Are Not Weakened by Sloppy and Careless Drafting

Avtorji

Thomas Allan Heller
Univerza v Mariboru, Pravna fakulteta
Dilsuz Zoyirova Abdijalilovna
Uzbekistanska državna univerza za svetovne jezike

Kratka vsebina

The parts of speech form the backbone of English discourse and writing. They consist of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, articles, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. This article focuses on verbs, which are generally action words. Verbs bring oral discourse and writing to life. Careless use of verbs does a major disservice to writing. It weakens writing and accordingly diminishes the overall vitality of the written word. The authors analyze the principal ways in which verbs are misused. They offer easy to understand, concrete examples of how to avoid the pitfalls of misusing verbs to ensure any subject, but particularly legal writing, will be as powerful and easy to understand as possible. Using verbs correctly is an important component of the Plain English Movement, whose goal has been to stamp out legalese.

Biografije avtorja

Thomas Allan Heller, Univerza v Mariboru, Pravna fakulteta

Thomas Allan Heller je ameriški pravni strokovnjak, ki je pridobil pravniško izobrazbo na University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Michigan, 1976) in J.D. Wayne Law School, Detroit (Michigan, 1979). Leta 1981 je uspešno opravil Michigan State Bar Exam, leta 1984 pa še Washington State Bar Exam. Zaposlen je bil na sodišču in odvetništvu. Leta 2017 je z družino prišel v Maribor, kjer so nastale uspešne vezi s PF UM. Thomas Allan Heller je pri sodelovanju s PF UM pomembno prispeval k širjenju znanja o ameriškem pravnem sistemu v Sloveniji. Njegovo sodelovanje s PF UM je še posebej obogatilo pedagoški proces. Thomas Allan Heller je tudi spodbudnik, sedaj že uspešnega sodelovanja med Wayne State University in PF UM. Njegov znanstveni opus obsega znanstvene članke, objavljene v priznanih slovenskih revijah, kot so Lexonomica, Medicine, Law & Society in Pravnik.

Maribor, Slovenija. E-pošta: heller6651@msn.com

Dilsuz Zoyirova Abdijalilovna, Uzbekistanska državna univerza za svetovne jezike

Tashkent, Uzbekistan. E-pošta:  dzoyirova@gmail.com

Prenosi

PDF

Izdaja

Collected Papers of Thomas A. Heller

Strani

335-364

Izdano

14.07.2025

Kategorije

Avtorske pravice (c) 2025 Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba

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Creative Commons licenca

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Kako citirati

Heller, T. A., & Zoyirova Abdijalilovna, D. (2025). Lights, Camera, Action: The Power of Verbs. Writing Strategies to Ensure Your Action Words Are Not Weakened by Sloppy and Careless Drafting. In S. Kraljić (Ed.), Collected Papers of Thomas A. Heller (pp. 335-364). Univerzitetna založba Univerze v Mariboru. https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/977/chapter/742