The legal writing handbook : analysis, research, and writing /
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| Author / Creator: | Oates, Laurel Currie, 1951- author. |
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| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2021] ©2021 |
| Description: | xxxvi, 963 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Aspen coursebook series Aspen coursebook series. |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12617160 |
Table of Contents:
- Making the transition
- The United States legal system
- Mandatory vs. persuasive authority
- Reading statutes
- Reading cases
- Primary authority
- Secondary authority
- Finding tools
- Citators
- Developing effective research strategies
- Drafting memos
- Getting the assignment
- Drafting the heading and statement of facts
- Drafting the issue statement and brief answer
- Drafting the discussion section
- Drafting the formal conclusion
- Revising, editing, and proofreading the memo
- Drafting memos requiring other types of analysis
- E-memos
- Drafting advice letters
- Introduction to rhetoric and bias
- Motion briefs
- Deciding on a theory of the case
- Drafting the caption and introduction
- Drafting the statement of facts
- Ordering the issues and arguments
- Drafting the issue statements
- Drafting the argumentative headings
- Drafting the arguments
- Drafting the prayer for relief and signing the brief
- Sample briefs
- Practicing before an appellate court
- Drafting an appellate brief : audience, purpose, and conventions
- Getting the case : United States v. Josephy
- Preparing to write the brief
- Planning the brief
- Beginning the appellate brief : the cover, tables, and jurisdictional statement
- Drafting the statement of issues presented for review
- Drafting the statement of the case and statement of facts
- Drafting the summary of the argument
- Drafting the argumentative headings
- Drafting the arguments
- Completing the brief
- Sample briefs
- Preparing and presenting an effective oral argument
- Effective writing : the whole document
- Connections between paragraphs
- Effective paragraphs
- Connections between sentences
- Effective sentences
- Effective words
- Bias-free language
- Eloquence
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Mechanics
- Legal writing for English-as-a-second-language writers.