Author: Carol M. Bast Publisher: Cengage Learning ISBN: 128540260X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 604
Book Description
FOUNDATIONS OF LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING, Fifth Edition is the ideal resource for paralegals. The book's up-to-the-minute coverage tackles the ever-evolving areas of computer-assisted research and Cyber law, in addition to traditional legal research, analysis, and writing. Extensive research chapters address primary and secondary sources, citating, Lexis/Nexis, the Internet, and more, while writing sections center on drafting client opinion letters, pleadings, contracts, office memos, memoranda of law, and appellate briefs. Every chapter gives you practice writing opportunities, as well as traditional and computer-assisted research assignments to help develop your skills. Detailed case excerpts, samples, tips, and discussions further support the assignments, and illustrate the many perils of inadequate research and poor legal writing. Readers everywhere agree that FOUNDATIONS OF LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING, Fifth Edition delivers the concepts you need for success in the most demanding law firms and legal departments today. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author: Carol M. Bast Publisher: Cengage Learning ISBN: 9781111318987 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The fourth edition of Foundations of Legal Research and Writing gives equal weight to research and writing making it a perfect resource to be used for both legal research and legal writing classes. An entire chapter providing a detailed explanation of legal reasoning and analysis has been added. Each of the research chapters ends with legal research assignments, allowing the professor to cut down on preparation time. Cyberlaw exercises are included at the end of most of the chapters, requiring students to perform computer-assisted legal research. Another chapter is devoted to computer-assisted legal research and explains the use of citators in detail. This chapter is written by an expert in the field, a law librarian who spent a number of years offering computer-assisted legal research seminars to practicing attorneys. The writing portion of the book devotes entire chapters to writing client opinion letters, pleadings, contracts, office memos, memoranda of law, and appellate briefs. Because the documents are covered in separate chapters, the professor can select the documents to be covered in class. The legal writing chapters contain sample documents, heavily footnoted with writing tips. The writing tips are designed to give the students as much help in their writing as possible. They also help to aid the less-experienced professor. The book contains case excerpts illustrating material introduced in the text and emphasizing the perils of performing inadequate legal research and writing poorly. The excerpts were selected to emphasize to students the importance of good legal research and writing. The book is designed to be professor-friendly by providing information gathered by the authors over the years, and appeals to the inexperienced and experienced professor alike.
Author: Carol M. Bast Publisher: Cengage Learning ISBN: 9781435413382 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 624
Book Description
Includes a specific chapter providing a detailed explanation of legal reasoning and analysis, and one chapter devoted to computer-assisted legal research. The writing portion of the book devotes entire chapters to writing client opinion letters, pleadings, contracts, office memos, memoranda of law, and appellate briefs. Those chapters contain sample documents, heavily footnoted with writing tips. The book contains case excerpts illustrating material introduced in the text and emphasizing the perils of performing inadequate legal research and writing poorly. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author: Michael D. Murray Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
This book is designed for a typical first semester Legal Research and Writing program that focuses on legal research, objective legal writing, and legal analysis. Murray and DeSanctis employ the TREAT paradigm and the doctrine of explanatory synthesis that are designed with reference to rhetorical theory to maximize the effectiveness of audience-directed legal writing. This book has sample research plans for tight budgets in terms of time or expense.
Author: Laurel Currie Oates Publisher: Aspen Publishers ISBN: 9780735524873 Category : Legal composition Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
By covering all three key components of the basic Legal Writing course - research, writing, and analysis - this process-oriented coursebook has earned its posiiton as a leading text in the field. Now, Legal Writing Handbook, Third Edition, builids on its success to help students master the skills they will use throughout their careers. the authors preserve the distinctive features that have made their book so effective: the only text with sufficiently broad coverage to help students become both effective researchers and competent writers the process approach leads students through pre-writing to drafting, editing, And The final draft by progressing from basic to more sophisticated skills, The authors lead students to success excellent examples demonstrate effective writing throughout the text the book begins with an overview of the legal system and how to analyze statutes and cases. From this foundation, The authors move to writing the objective memorandum and trial and appellate briefs distinctive handbook format offers short segments for easy reference a unique chapter on the needs of students for whom English is a second language a separate Practice Book that gives numerous exercises for students to test the skills they are learning Important new and revised material in the Third Edition includes: a separate chapter on the Trial Brief, with examples a new chapter on Legal Reading, reflecting research on the differences between expert and novice legal readers examples of client letters tightly edited legal research materials for greater accessibility updated material bias-free language citation sections with full coverage of the ALWD Citation Manual
Author: Kate L. Turabian Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226816397 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 465
Book Description
A little more than seventy-five years ago, Kate L. Turabian drafted a set of guidelines to help students understand how to write, cite, and formally submit research writing. Seven editions and more than nine million copies later, the name Turabian has become synonymous with best practices in research writing and style. Her Manual for Writers continues to be the gold standard for generations of college and graduate students in virtually all academic disciplines. Now in its eighth edition, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations has been fully revised to meet the needs of today’s writers and researchers. The Manual retains its familiar three-part structure, beginning with an overview of the steps in the research and writing process, including formulating questions, reading critically, building arguments, and revising drafts. Part II provides an overview of citation practices with detailed information on the two main scholarly citation styles (notes-bibliography and author-date), an array of source types with contemporary examples, and detailed guidance on citing online resources. The final section treats all matters of editorial style, with advice on punctuation, capitalization, spelling, abbreviations, table formatting, and the use of quotations. Style and citation recommendations have been revised throughout to reflect the sixteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. With an appendix on paper format and submission that has been vetted by dissertation officials from across the country and a bibliography with the most up-to-date listing of critical resources available, A Manual for Writers remains the essential resource for students and their teachers.
Author: Carol M. Bast
Author: Carol Bast
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Author: Carol M. Bast
Author: Carol M. Bast
Author: Steven M. Barkan
Author: Michael D. Murray
Author: Michael D. Murray
Author: Laurel Currie Oates
Author: Kate L. Turabian