Synthesis : legal reading, reasoning, and writing /
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| Author / Creator: | Schmedemann, Deborah A., 1956- |
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Aspen Publishers, c2007. |
| Description: | xxxiii, 566 p. : ill., 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6425975 |
| Summary: | An abundance of solid features makes this text a dependable choice for your classroom: - Utilizes a step-by-step approach to help guide students to understanding effective legal reasoning and writing tactics - Teaches students how to think like a lawyer, discussing key topics such as how to read the law, how to reason about a client's situation, and how to write about it in different legal forms - Uses one case file -- the Home-ElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law -- to demonstrate how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument - Maintains a pedagogy designed to reach those who learn in different ways, incorporating numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners - Integrates exercises throughout the book -- based on a tort law issue that is particularly understandable for first-year students -- to provide opportunities for active application of skills - Includes a Teacher's Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to use the book effectively, and sample syllabi Thoughtful changes to the Third Edition keep the text current for your classroom: - Offers more consideration to transaction-based memos and advice letters - Integrates material on premediation submissions - Includes additional material on pleadings (complaints, answers, and discovery documents) - Provides updated exercises and citation materials |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 566 p. : ill., 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780735562837 0735562830 |