The legal writing handbook : analysis, research, and writing / Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist.
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New York :
Aspen Publishers,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- BOOK 1 : AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW: Introduction
- The United States legal system
- Introduction to legal research
- Citators
- Reading and analyzing statutes and cases
- BOOK 2 : INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL RESEARCH AND OBJECTIVE AND ADVISORY WRITING: Introduction
- The objective memorandum : its purpose, audience, and format
- PART 1 : RESEARCHING AND WRITING A MEMO INVOLVING STATE STATUTES: Introduction : the assignment
- Researching an issue governed by state statutes
- Drafting Memo 1
- Revising, editing, and proofreading Memo 1
- PART 2 : RESEARCHING AND WRITING A MEMO INVOLVING STATE COMMON LAW: Introduction : the assignment
- Researching issues governed by common law
- Drafting Memo 2
- Revising, editing and proofreading Memo 2
- PART 3 : RESEARCHING AND WRITING A MEMO INVOLVING FEDERAL LAW: Introduction : the assignment
- Researching issues governed by federal statutes and regulations
- Drafting a prehearing memo
- Revising, editing, and proofreading a prehearing memo
- PART 4 : DRAFTING LETTERS TO CLIENTS: Introduction : the assignment
- Researching issues governed by county and city ordinances
- Drafting, revising, and editing the opinion letter
- BOOK 3 : INTRODUCTION TO PERSUASIVE WRITING AND ORAL ADVOCACY: Introduction
- Writing a trial brief
- Writing an appellate brief
- Oral advocacy
- BOOK 4 : A GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE AND CORRECT WRITING: Introduction
- PART 1 : GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE WRITING: Effective writing : the whole paper
- Connections between paragraphs
- Effective paragraphs
- Connections between sentences
- Effective sentences
- Effective words
- Eloquence
- PART 2 : GUIDE TO CORRECT WRITING: Introduction
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Mechanics
- BOOK 5 : LEGAL WRITING FOR ENGLISH-AS-A-SECOND-LANGUAGE STUDENTS: Introduction
- Legal writing for ESL law students.