Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning and Writing (Legal Research and Writing)

An abundance of solid features makes this text a dependable choice for your classroom: - Utilizes a step-by-step approach to help guide students to understanding effective legal reasoning and writing tactics - Teaches students how to think like a lawyer, discussing key topics such as how to read the law, how to reason about a client's situation, and how to write about it in different legal forms - Uses one case file -- the Home-ElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law -- to demonstrate how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument - Maintains a pedagogy designed to reach those who learn in different ways, incorporating numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners - Integrates exercises throughout the book -- based on a tort law issue that is particularly understandable for first-year students -- to provide opportunities for active application of skills - Includes a Teacher's Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to use the book effectively, and sample syllabi Thoughtful changes to the Third Edition keep the text current for your classroom: - Offers more consideration to transaction-based memos and advice letters - Integrates material on premediation submissions - Includes additional material on pleadings (complaints, answers, and discovery documents) - Provides updated exercises and citation materials
ASIN: 0735562830
VSKU: BVV.0735562830.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Schmedemann, Deborah A.|Kuntz, Christina L.
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.