The Legal writing handbook : practice book / Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist.
Detalles de publicación: Austin : Wolters Kluwer, Law & Business, 2010.Edición: 5th edDescripción: ix, 323 pages ; 28 cmTipo de contenido:- 9780735585188
- 0735585180
- 808.06634 22
- KF250 .O18 2010
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The Legal Writing Practice Book is the ideal accompaniment to theLegal Writing Handbook. This comprehensive supplement contains:hundreds of class-tested exercises to help students practice theirskills while reinforcing their understanding of the materialan accessible format with perforated pages that make it easy to use forboth class assignments and individual studyan answer key for all the exercises cross-referenced to The LegalWriting Handbook, Fourth Edition, including short explanations about why agiven answer is recommendednew exercises for English as a second languageKey topics covered in the Legal Writing Practice Book include:paragraph lengthtopic and concluding sentencesactive/passive voicestransitionscreating emphasisconcisenessfragmentsgrammarpunctuation
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.
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- Book 1 An Introduction To Law (There are no research exercises for Book 1)
- Book 2 Introduction to Legal Research and Objective and Advisory Writing
- Chapter 6 Exercises: Research Involving State Statutes
- State Practice Manuals
- Hornbooks and Nutshells Google
- State Statutes: The Names of State Codes
- State Regulations: The Names of State Administrative Codes
- Locating State Statutes
- The Names of State Reporters
- Locating Cases in State and Regional Reporters
- Research Exercise
- Chapter 9 Exercises: Research Involving State Common Law
- Background Reading
- Digests
- Reporter
- Research Exercise
- Chapter 12 Exercises: Research Involving Federal Statutes and Regulations
- Background Reading
- Federal Statutes
- Federal Regulations
- Locating Cases That Discuss the Constitutionality of a Statute
- Sources for U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
- Sources for Law Review Articles
- Research Exercise
- Chapter 15 Research Involving Local Law
- City Charters
- Municipal Ordinances
- Simple Research Exercise
- More Complicated Research Exercise
- Book 3 Introduction To Persuasive Writing And Oral Advocacy (There are no research exercises for Book 3)
- Book 4 A Guide To Effective And Correct Writing
- Part I Guide to Effective Writing
- Chapter 22 Effective Paragraphs
- Paragraph Length
- Topic Sentences
- Paragraph Blocks
- Chapter 23 Connections Between Sentences
- Generic Transitions
- Dovetailing
- Chapter 24 Effective Sentences
- Active and Passive Voice
- Passive Voice
- Concrete Subjects
- Action Verbs
- Subject-Verb Distance
- Sentence Length
- Emphasis
- Single Word Emphasizers
- Changing Word Order
- Breaking a Pattern
- Chapter 25 Effective Words
- Word Choice
- Appropriate Comparisons
- Subject-Verb-Object Combinations
- Conciseness
- Legales
- Gender-Neutral Language
- Bias-Free Language
- Part II Guide to Correct Writing
- Chapter 27 Grammar
- Fragments
- Verb Tense
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Pronoun Agreement
- Ambiguous Pronouns
- Broad Pronoun Reference
- Pronoun Antecedents
- Modifier Placement
- Misplaced Modifiers
- Dangling Modifiers
- Parallelism
- Chapter 28 Punctuation
- Commas
- Semicolons
- Colons
- Apostrophes
- Other Marks of Punctuation
- Hyphens
- Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
- Book 6 Legal Writing For English-As-A-Second Language Students
- Chapter 30 English-as-a-Second-Language Grammar
- Count and Non-count Nouns
- Articles: A, An, The Auxiliary, or Helping, Verbs