Legal Writing and Analysis (Aspen Coursebook Series)

Book Synopsis: Buy a new version of this Connected Casebook and receive access to the online e-book, practice questions from your favorite study aids, and an outline tool on CasebookConnect, the all in one learning solution for law school students. CasebookConnect offers you what you need most to be successful in your law school classes— portability, meaningful feedback, and greater efficiency. This streamlined text offers a straightforward guide to developing legal writing and analysis skills for beginning legal writers. Legal Writing and Analysis, Fifth Edition by Linda Edwards, leads students logically through reading and analyzing the law, writing the discussion of a legal question, and writing office memos, letters, and briefs. The text includes chapters on citation form, writing style, professionalism, and oral argument.

The book features special focus on forms of legal reasoning (rules, analogies, policies, principles, customs, inferences, and narrative) complete with examples and exercises. It teaches students to recognize rule structures and use them to organize their document.

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Streamlined chapters and exercises
• Updated citation materials covering current editions of both citation manuals
• Product page featuring more material on professional letters and accessible coverage and use of legal theory

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Contextual learning, including important legal method material
• Superior treatment of how to organize a legal discussion
• Clear, ample coverage of legal reasoning
• Practice-oriented approach
• Numerous examples and short exercises for formative assessment
• Strong coverage of professional responsibility

CasebookConnect features:

• ONLINE E-BOOK

Law school comes with a lot of reading, so access your enhanced e-book anytime, anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics.

• PRACTICE QUESTIONS

Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time.

• OUTLINE TOOL

Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.