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Oates, Laurel Currie,

The Legal writing handbook : practice book / Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist. - 5th ed. - Austin : Wolters Kluwer, Law & Business, 2010. - ix, 323 pages ; 28 cm

Making the transition (no exercises) -- The United States legal system (no exercises) -- Reading and analyzing statutes and cases (no exercises) -- Introduction to legal research -- Researching issues governed by state statutes and regulations -- Researching issues governed by federal statutes and regulations -- Researching issues governed by common law -- Researching constitutional issues -- Researching issues governed by county and city ordinances -- Citators -- Drafting memos (no exercises) -- Drafting memo 1 -- Drafting memo 2 -- Drafting memos requiring other types of analysis (no exercises) -- Drafting opinion letters (no exercises) -- Drafting email and text messages (no exercises) -- Motion briefs (no exercises) -- Drafting appellate briefs (no exercises) -- Making an effective oral argument (no exercises) -- Effective writing: the whole paper (no exercises) -- Connections between paragraphs (no exercises) -- Effective paragraphs -- Connections between sentences -- Effective sentences -- Effective words -- Eloquence (no exercises) -- Grammar -- Punctuation -- Mechanics (no exercises) -- Grammar and rhetoric for English-as-a-second-language law students.

ISBN: 9780735585188 0735585180

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Legal composition.
Legal research--United States.
Legal composition.
Legal research.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

LC Class. No.: KF250 / .O18 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 808.06634