Legal Analysis and Writing: An Active-Learning Approach, First Edition
Legal Analysis and Writing: An Active-Learning Approach, First Edition
Learning to write like a lawyer requires more than passive reading and listening to lectures; it requires active learning. Legal Analysis and Writing: An Active-Learning Approachdemystifies the process of analyzing a fact pattern and translating that analysis into succinct and objective writing. This book’s scaffolded approach emphasizes an incremental presentation of the best practices of legal writing while offering a wide variety of features to help rising lawyers master the form and function of the documents they will compose in practice.
Professors and students will benefit from:
- Study guide questions for each chapter to help students focus their reading
- Detailed explanations throughout the book, allowing students to understand the writing process
- Check-in exercises enabling students to test their understanding
- Plentiful writing examples to provide students with models for good writing
- Templates, worksheets, and checklists to help students analyze the law and assess their writing
- A detailed glossary to help students master key terminology
- In-class application exercises, quizzes, and more
- Support for flipped classroom and/or team-based learning models of instruction