 | Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization
by Edwards
Edition/Year: 4th ed., 2006
ISBN: 9780735556560
Format: Paperback-New
SKU: 98035
Our Low Price: $73.95 | | Availability: This item ships within the next business day. | Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization 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.
Table of contents includes:
The Process of Writing Predictively: The Office Memo;
Structuring For Analysis: Outlining the Working Draft;
Outlining a Rule of Law;
Outlining a Rule to Organize Your Analysis of a Legal Issue;
Formulating a Rule from a Case Opinion;
Formulating a Rule from Multiple Authorities;
Using a Rule to Form the Structure: Special Circumstances;
Drafting for Analysis: Writing the Working Draft;
Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Rule Explanation;
Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Rule Application;
Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Organizing and Writing the Discussion of Multiple Authorities;
Writing the Analysis of Multiple Issues;
Converting the Working Draft to an Office Memo;
The Office Memo and the Law-Trained Reader;
Organizing for Your Reader: The Discussion Section;
Completing the Draft of the Office Memo;
Revising to Achieve a Final Draft;
Citations and Quotations;
The Process of Writing Persuasively: The Brief;
Drafting for Persuasion: Writing the Working Draft;
Converting the Working Draft to a Brief;
The Argument and the Format of the Brief;
The Statement of Facts;
Revising to Achieve a Final Draft. |
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