Legal Writing & Analysis 5e

This highly accessible text uses a process-based approach that integrates legal analysis with writing to provide a basic introduction to the skills needed for effective legal writing. Professor Linda Edwards, a highly respected member of the legal writing community, identifies four main stages of a writing task and helps students learn how to use each stage as a tool to better writing. Among the attributes that have made Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization so successful: The text takes students, step-by-step, through outlining, creating a working draft, creating the final document, and revising effectively. Creating a rule of law is integrated into the writing process and linked to the large-scale organization of the document, so that reasoning and writing are taught as two interrelated processes. Concrete explanations and examples that reinforce the material. Exercises that help students build their writing skills. Appendices that include sample office memoranda, trial brief, appellate briefs, letters, and cases used in the text's examples and exercise New to the updated Fifth Edition: A chapter on professional letter writing has been added that includes letters to clients, letters to other lawyers, and transmittal letters. An appendix with various sample letters Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, Fifth Edition , is an accessible and teachable text that focuses on the basic substantive and organizational principles of good legal writing. LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO HELP YOU IN LEGAL WRITING? TRY EXAMPLES & EXPLANATIONS: LEGAL WRITING 2011 EDITION (9780735597303) --ONE OF MANY GREAT STUDY GUIDES FROM WOLTERS KLUWER LAW & BUSINESS.