Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization

With its process-oriented approach and effective demonstration of the interrelationship between reasoning and writing, Legal Writing:: Process, Analysis, and Organization is a favorite of students and instructors. Now in its Third Edition, this phenomenally successful paperback has been revised and improved to serve as the cornerstone of the Legal Writing course. The author's careful attention to different learning styles keeps the book accessible.

Noted author Linda H. Edwards retains the popular features that earned the enormously effective first and second editions such widespread acceptance, 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 explanations and examples that reinforce the materials
• copious exercises which help students build their writing skills

In response to user feedback, LEGAL WRITING: Process, Analysis, and Organization, Third Edition, now offers:

• expanded use of cases to make effective analogies
• expanded coverage of using narrative techniques for persuasion
• coverage of the ALWD Citation Manual Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, Third Edition, offers everything students need to get their first-year off to a solid start.

• First Things First

PART I: THE PROCESS OF WRITING PREDICTIVELY: THE OFFICE MEMO

• Outlining a Rule of Law

• Outlining a Rule to Organize Your Analysis of a Legal Issue

• Formulating a Rule from a Case Opinion

• Formulating a Rule from Multiple Authorities

• Using a Rule to Form the Structure: Special Circumstances

• Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Rule Explanation

• Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Rule Application

• Writing the Analysis of a Single Issue: Organizing the Discussion of Multiple Authorities

• Writing the Analysis of Multiple Issues

• The Office Memo and the Law-Trained Reader

• Organizing for Your Reader: the Discussion Section

• Completing the Draft of the Office Memo

• Citations and Quotations: The Bluebook

• Citations and Quotations: ALWD Manual

• Revising for Usage and Style

PART II: THE PROCESS OF WRITING PERSUASIVELY: THE BRIEF

• Ethics, Judges, and Briefs

• Formulating and Structuring a Favorable Rule

• Drafting Working Headings

• Writing the Working Draft

• The Argument and the Format of the Brief

• the Statement of Facts

• Editing the Brief

• Oral Argument