Overview
With its process-oriented approch and effective demonstration of the interrelationship between resoning and writing, this book is a favorite of instructors who want to concentrate on the basics of legl reasoning and writing. Now in its Second Edition, this phenomenally successful paperback has been revised and improved. The author's careful attention to different lerning stypels keeps the book accesible and teachable while reflecting comments from instructors, both in the choice of material and in the scope and depth of coverage. Noted author Linda Holdermann Edwards retains the popular features that earned the enormously effective First Edition such widespread adoption for course use including: a step-by-step overview of the process of legal writing: outlining; creating a working draft; developing a final document; and revising effectively legal analysis linked to the large-scale organization of the document concrete examples and explanations that reinforce the materials copious exercises which help students build their writing skills In response to user feedback, the book now offers: a new section on oral argument a reworked process chapter fine-tuning of the persuasive writing section to facilitate smoother teaching new exercises a thorough Teacher's Manual appendices containing a sample office memorandum, sample trial brief, and sample appellate brief