The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing (7th Edition) – PDF

The Legal Writing Handbook, 7th Edition, (PDF/ePub) is a valuable process-oriented guide for teaching legal writing. Its authors take students through each stage of the writing process – from pre-writing, drafting, and editing, to the final draft. Through their comprehensive approach, the authors ensure that aspiring legal professionals grasp the writing skills they’ll need throughout their careers. The Legal Writing Handbook 7e is a seven-in-one book. Book 1 provides a concise overview of the U.S. Legal System; Book 2 introduces students to legal research, including research strategies and sources; Book 3 covers informal and formal memo and opinion letter writing processes, while Book 4 focuses on oral advocacy and persuasive writing. Book 5 is a go-to manual for effective writing, and Book 6 guides readers to write accurately. Lastly, Book 7 emphasizes the needs of non-native English speakers. Key features of this edition include step-by-step instructions on how to write appellate and motion briefs, e-memos, formal memos, and opinion letters. There’s also a new section on learning sentence structures used in legal writing within the ESL chapter. Moreover, this edition includes chapters on reading and analyzing cases and statutes, legal research, and mandatory and persuasive authority. Additionally, it has an online Diagnostic Exam for Punctuation and Grammar that automatically grades itself and sends students to the parts of the eBook they need to review. The research part of the book has been re-written as discrete chapters, from defining primary sources (Chapter 3) to secondary sources (Chapter 4), citators (Chapter 5), finding tools (Chapter 6), and on mandatory and persuasive authority (Chapter 7). The eBook edition also boasts additional ISBNs: 978-1454895282, 9781454899228, 978-1454894278, 978-1454897132, 978-1454899228, 1454897139. Note that the product only includes the eBook The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing 7th edition, in the original ePub format, with an included converted PDF. No access codes are provided. Those interested may also peruse the newer edition. See related eBooks below.