The Pre-Writing Handbook for Law Students: A Step-by-Step Guide
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ISBN: 161163184X / Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, June 2013
Designed for the early weeks of a first-year course in legal writing, this handbook will help students understand the process of legal analysis before they begin legal writing such as case briefs. The handbook breaks legal analysis down into a sequence of steps that can be used with any legal scenario, from understanding the assignment and formulating a research plan, through incorporating research into the pre-writing process, reading and assessing relevant authorities, connecting reading and analysis, analyzing issues, and the transition from pre-writing to writing. Students work through two case scenarios in each chapter, and a chapter recap lists written products the student should have by the end of the chapter for each case. Each chapter closes with an independent practice exercise, so that students can gain practice without guided instructions. Margin notes identify crucial metacognitive checkpoints to monitor and refine the pre-writing process. Boxes offer sample documents and checklists. Graham and Felsenburg are affiliated with Wake Forest University School of Law. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Intended primarily for use in the first few weeks of the first-semester legal writing course, The Pre-Writing Handbook for Law Students: A Step-by-Step Guide takes a systematic approach to the process of preparing to write legal memos, briefs, and other documents. The Handbook is designed to help students focus on and become competent in the process of legal analysis that precedes their work on a written product. The Handbook is uniquely designed to help students gauge their own progress as they work through the pre-writing process. The confidence students will gain from engaging in the pre-writing process outlined in the Handbook will translate into a smoother, more effective writing process and a better written product.Each chapter of the Handbook contains a number of useful features: - Frequent metacognitive “checkpoints”—text boxes that prompt students to pause or stop in their pre-writing work and assess their own efficiency and effectiveness.- Concrete examples of how the steps in the pre-writing process would work in the context of two recurring legal scenarios.- End-of-chapter recaps that summarize the desired results of the student's work during each step of the pre-writing process.- Independent Practice Exercises.
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