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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Legal argument</title>
    <subTitle>the structure and language of effective advocacy</subTitle>
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    <title>Structure and language of effective advocacy</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Gardner, James A.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>LexisNexis</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvii, 169 p. 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The syllogism model -- Determining your conclusion from your position -- Building the premises -- Grounding the premises -- The major premise -- The minor premise -- Summary of the method -- Building a complete argument -- Introduction to writing arguments -- Writing a legal argument -- Common problems of written legal advocacy and how to avoid them -- Special problems of legal advocacy -- Responding to arguments -- Common tactics and rhetorical techniques of effective written advocacy -- Professionalism in advocacy -- The ethical limits of argument.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">James A. Gardner.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Trial practice</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Communication in law</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KF 8915 .G28 2007</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781422418208</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2007044440</identifier>
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