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• Title:Legal writing : process, analysis, and organization / Linda H. Edwards, E. L. Cord Foundation Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
  
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• Author/Creator:Edwards, Linda Holdeman, 1948- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2018]
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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KF250 .E38 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal composition.
  
• Edition:Seventh edition.
  
• Description:xxiii, 407 pages : forms ; 26 cm
  
• Series:Aspen coursebook series.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781454895916 paperback
  1454895918 paperback
  
• Contents:First things first
  Outlining rules
  Using rules to organize your analysis
  Finding a rule in a statute
  Finding a rule in a case
  Finding a rule from multiple authorities
  Analyzing a single issue: rule explanation
  Analyzing a single issue: rule application
  Analyzing a single issue: using multiple authorities
  Analyzing multiple issues
  The office memo and the law-trained reader
  Organizing for your reader: the discussion section
  Completing the draft of the office memo
  Citations and quotations
  Revising for usage and style
  Writing professional letters
  Ethics, judges, and briefs
  Structuring the argument: first steps
  Finding and structuring a more favorable rule
  Writing the working draft: first steps
  Refining the arguments: the standard of review and the question presented
  The statement of facts
  Converting the draft to a brief
  Editing the brief
  Oral argument.