Legal Writing : Process, Analysis, and Organization - Softcover

Linda Holdeman Edwards

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735503117 ISBN 13: 9780735503113

Publisher: Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Aspen Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735503117
• ISBN 13: 9780735503113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 440