The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing (Aspen Coursebook)

The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing (Aspen Coursebook)

<p><em>The Legal Writing Handbook, Seventh Edition</em> offers an effective process approach to teaching legal writing. The authors take students through each of the necessary stages of the writing process, from pre-writing, drafting, and editing, to the final draft. The authors step-by-step approach assures that students will master the writing skills they will need throughout their careers.</p> <p><em>The Legal Writing Handbook </em>is seven books in one: Book 1 provides students with an introduction to the U.S. Legal System; Book 2 provides an introduction to legal research, with both an introduction to sources and to research strategies; Book 3 introduces students to the process of writing formal and informal memos and opinion letters; Book 4 introduces students to persuasive writing and oral advocacy; Book 5 is a guide to effective writing; Book 6 is a guide to correct writing; and Book 7 focuses on the needs of ESL writers.</p> <p><strong>Key features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Chapters on reading and analyzing statutes and cases, mandatory and persuasive authority, and legal research</li> <li>Research portion has been re-written: There are now discrete chapters that describe primary sources (3), secondary sources (4), finding tools (5), citators (6), and on mandatory and persuasive authority (7)</li> <li>Step-by-step instruction on how to write formal memos, e-memos, and opinion letters</li> <li>Step-by-step instruction on how to write motion and appellate briefs</li> <li>A new section on mastering the sentence structures used in legal writing within ESL chapter.</li> <li>Online Diagnostic Exam for Grammar and Punctuation that grades itself and sends students to the parts of the book they need to review</li> </ul>