Legal Writing for Legal Readers: Predictive Writing for First-Year Students (2nd Edition) – eBook

Legal Writing for Legal Readers: Predictive Writing for First-Year Students, 2nd Edition (PDF) teaches the differences between strong and weak legal writing by letting students read examples of both. Students discover how productive it can be to read a well-articulated argument, as compared to one that is illogical. We aren’t always able to identify our own faults as writers–but as readers, we can see clearly the merits of both the argument and its presentation. The authors’ sidebars and annotations highlight why one writer fails while another succeeds. In Legal Writing for Legal Readers 2nd edition, students realize the significance of their own behavior as readers and how that behavior should dictate their writing decisions. As readers, students learn to recognize the specific elements of analysis and structure that make legal writing effective. As writers, they will make better and more informed choices, when they think about it from a reader’s perspective.

New to the Second Edition:

• Expanded inclusion of annotations and marginal notes that answer anticipated student questions
• Revised to focus exclusively on predictive analytical writing that most law schools teach during the first semester of the first year

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Exercises that test students’ understanding of important concepts while they learn
• Broad coverage that includes memos and briefs, as well as complaints, correspondence, and criminal motions
• Extensive variety of samples and examples, both good and bad, selected to illustrate legal writing concepts for students
• Annotations that incorporate cognitive and behavioral theories to explain why some approaches work better than others
• Sidebar comments and marginal notes that answer anticipated student questions and define important legal and writing-related terms that may distract students as they learn new concepts

Teaching materials include:

• Additional samples of longer documents
• Additional exercises for use with most chapters
• Document to further illustrate important concepts for both students and teachers

978-1454896357, 978-1543804836

NOTE: This sale only consists of the eBook Legal Writing for Legal Readers: Predictive Writing for First Year Students, 2nd Edition in PDF. No access codes are included.