Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization

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ISBN-10:

0735503109

ISBN-13:

9780735503106

Author(s): Linda Holdeman Edwards
Edition: Second Edition
Released: Jan 01, 1999
Publisher: Panel Pub
Format: Paperback, 440 pages
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Description:

Instructors who want to concentrate on the basics of legal writing will welcome the new edition of this successful process-oriented text. LEGAL WRITING: Process, Analysis, and Organization, Fourth Edition, is a concise and straightforward guide for the beginner.

The book is designed to facilitate learning:

  • provides a basic guide to the skills of legal writing
  • process-oriented text takes students step by step through outlining, creating a working draft, creating the final document, and revising effectively
  • teaches reasoning and writing as two interrelated processes by integrating creating a rule of law into the writing process and linking it to the large-scale organization of the document The author pays close attention to different learning styles, keeping the book teachable and accessible
  • concrete explanations and examples reinforce the material
  • exercises help students build their writing skills
  • appendices include a sample office memorandum, trial brief, appellate brief, and cases uses in the examples and exercises

    Changes for the Fourth Edition enhance the teachability of the book:

  • two more sample documents are introduced, and all the documents in the appendices are identified as examples of particular common kinds of analysis
  • materials are streamlined wherever possible to control the length of the text
  • citation materials are fully updated
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