Legal Writing Manual

by Jean Mangan et al.

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This text provides an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. On the other hand, this manual does not answer every question on every legal writing concept; it is certainly not a spell book that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing.

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Publisher
University System of Georgia
Subjects
Humanities, Composition
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Chapters
  7. 1.1: Sources of Law and Court Systems
  8. 1.2: Reading Cases
  9. 1.3: Briefing Cases
  10. 1.4: Local Rules and Standing Orders
  11. 1.5: Time Management
  12. 1.6: Metacognition and Study Skills
  13. 1.7: Introduction to Citation
  14. 1.8: The Legal Reader
  15. 1.9: Prewriting
  16. 1.10: CREAC Legal Writing Paradigm
  17. 1.11: Predictive Writing
  18. 1.12: Rule Synthesis
  19. 1.13: Summary of Law
  20. 1.14: Case Synthesis
  21. 1.15: Parts of a Memo
  22. 1.16: Transitions and Signposting
  23. 1.17: Persuasive Writing
  24. 1.18: Parts of an Appellate Brief
  25. 1.19: Assessing Your Own Work
  26. 1.20: Conducting Peer Review
  27. 1.21: Writing for Exams
  28. Back Matter
  29. Index
  30. Detailed Licensing