Legal Writing

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; and citation materials are fully updated.