The science behind the art of legal writing /
"What evidence exists to support the advice that legal writing professors offer their students? For example, do legal readers really prefer short sentences and the active voice? Is outlining the best way to start a memo or brief? Can a certain font type make a brief more persuasive? Is deductiv...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Carolina Academic Press,
2019
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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| Summary: | "What evidence exists to support the advice that legal writing professors offer their students? For example, do legal readers really prefer short sentences and the active voice? Is outlining the best way to start a memo or brief? Can a certain font type make a brief more persuasive? Is deductive reasoning the most effective form of legal reasoning? Will a legal writer view the use of the word 'clearly'' with skepticism? Are judges annoyed by minor grammatical errors or typos? These questions and many more are addressed in [this book]. This text provides easy access to research in the form of social psychological experiments, statistical analyses, and surveys (some done by others and some done by the authors), which suggest that much of the advice given to legal writing students is backed by solid science."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 152 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781531007744 1531007740 |