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Legal Writing and Analysis |  | Author: Linda Holdeman Edwards
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
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Sales Rank: 57156
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 350
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0735562296
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06634
EAN: 9780735562295
ASIN: 0735562296
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Product Description
Ideal for beginning legal writers, this logically organized and exceptionally well-written text offers a concise and straightforward guide to legal writing and analysis. Updated to include exercises with increased focus on first-year courses, Legal Writing and Analysis, Second Edition, starts with an overview of the legal system and the lawyer¿s role, then leads students from reading and analyzing the law through the process of legal writing, providing numerous examples and exercises along the way. Classroom-tested features of this bestselling text include: a consistent use of the legal method approach, from an opening chapter providing an overview of a civil case and the lawyer¿s role, to information about the legal system, case briefing, synthesizing cases, and statutory interpretation an emphasis on analogical reasoning and synthesizing cases, as well as rule-based and policy-based reasoning, with explanations of how to use these types of reasoning to organize a legal discussion a logical organization that starts with reading and analyzing the law and then moves on to writing the discussion of a legal question, writing an office memo and professional letters, and advocacy writing. chapters addressing style and formality considerations as well as oral advocacy effective coverage of the use of precedent a superior discussion of small-scale organization, including the thesis paragraph numerous examples and frequent short exercises that encourage students to apply concepts a comprehensive Teacher¿s Manual that offers helpful advice for instructors. The Second Edition offers new exercises, including increased focus on first-year courses. a revision of Part Five on advocacy writing, streamlining the order of the chapters and adding more coverage of questions presented an updated citation chapter. Chapter 12 on the Office Memorandum has been expanded to add another format for a question presented and is accompanied by an example Please visit the new companion website to learn more about this book. Website: http://www.aspenlawschool.com/edwardslwa2
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 Great purchase for a great price May 22, 2010
H. J. Thomas
The book I ordered was exactly what I needed and described exactly as it had been.
 LRW book September 22, 2009
Lawstudent (St Louis, MO)
Use this book for my LRW class, so its not like I have an option. Pretty easy to read, but I don't have anything to compare it to anyway.
 Somewhat insulting to college grad's intelligence September 21, 2008
S. Kelly (Jinan, China)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book does cover all the basics, but it's painfully insulting in parts as it drones on about basics like avoiding passive voice. Didn't I learn this in high school?
Ten years ago the books must have been pitched to a higher level.
Teh Bomb September 8, 2007
Michael Battl (Conway, SC)
0 out of 14 found this review helpful
Well, it's a law school text book. What do you want me to say? I work a lot. It does a good job at facilitating that.
 Not too shaby August 22, 2007
Wrench (Houston, TX)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was used during my lawyering process class and is used in an attempt for the 1st year law student to become aclomated to the tortures of legal writing and analysis. Overall this is a pretty good book that does give the entering law student a good foundation to start with it. However, the writing problems and questions used for practice are really hit or miss, with some benig good, and some being just plain ridiculous.
Overall, there are better books out there than this to help you with legal writing (statsky comes to mind).
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