Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer, Third Edition / Edition 3

by Anne Enquist, Laurel Currie Oates

Overview

Companion Website: www.aspenlawschool.com/oates_enquist

Adapted from the popular Legal Writing Handbook, this powerful guide focuses exclusively on the style, grammar, punctuation, and the mechanics of strong legal writing. With the authors’ trademark step-by-step approach, Just Writing enables students to master a skill that will contribute to their success in both law school and practice.

Proven to be effective in the classroom, the Third Edition features:

• honed coverage that zeroes in on style, grammar, punctuation, and the mechanics of legal writing in a concise length and format
• tips and techniques for every step of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading
• the authors’ trademark straightforward, building-block approach
• clear explanations and crafted examples
• practice exercises that allow students to use specific skills covered in the text
• writing for ESL students
• “Quick Tips” about writing integrated throughout the text
• a Glossary of Usage
• a bound-in CD with practice exercises
• a dedicated Teacher’s Manual, with specific teaching suggestions for each chapter in the book
• additional teaching and testing materials on a Teaching Materials Website , available to adopters

Enquist and Oates’s clarity and finely honed content make Just Writing the perfect complement to any legal writing course. New professors will especially appreciate the ample teaching support that accompanies this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735576681
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	02/11/2009
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	339
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Part I: A Guide to Effective Writing

Chapter 1. Effective Writing—The Whole Paper
Chapter 2. Connections Between Paragraphs
Chapter 3. Effective Paragraphs
Chapter 4. Connections Between Sentences
Chapter 5. Effective Sentences
Chapter 6. Effective Words
Chapter 7. Eloquence

Part II: A Guide to Correct Writing

Chapter 8. Grammar
Chapter 9. Punctuation

Part III: A Guide to Legal Writing for English-as-a-Second-Language Writers

Chapter 10. Legal Writing for English-as-a-Second-Language Writers

Glossary of Usage
Index