Persuasive Writing: A Storytelling Approach teaches students how to write effective motion briefs, and other types of non-adversarial persuasive writing by threading a narrative or “storytelling” theme throughout the entire text. This text endorses a three-stage framework—processing, packaging and revising —for integrating storytelling into any type of persuasive writing and is premised on the theory that Legal Storytelling is the most effective backdrop for effective advocacy. Organized to make the material accessible and highlight the intuitive nature of legal storytelling, this text will give the novice legal writer several resources to engage with the legal storytelling process.
The depth and scope of this text make it appropriate for upper-level legal writing courses. The Third Edition has been expanded to include the use of movies and other popular culture media in chapters dealing with literary references.
New to the Second Edition: A new chapter on logical fallacies, unique among legal coursebooks, categorizing and describing 16 common logical fallacies, providing examples and guidance on how to spot and avoid them A new chapter on reasoning ...
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This book hits the sweet spot between books that focus only on briefs and books that try to do too much.
Extracting pieces from four years of persuasive legal-writing columns featured in the New Jersey Law Journal, this compilation acts as a writer’s workshop by examining the typical mistakes writers make...
With a practical focus on persuasive writing strategy, Michael R. Smith identifies and explores three processes of persuasive writing—logos, pathos, and ethos—and provides a thorough introduction To The elements of...
4 ○ Professor Nathalie Martin, Frederick M. Hart Chair in Consumer and Clinical Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, summarizes mindfulness as “present awareness of one's thoughts as they arise and minute-to-minute ...
Combining two groundbreaking texts for predictive and persuasive writing in one volume, The Mindful Legal Writer: Mastering Predictive and Persuasive Writing, raises awareness of important elements in the legal writing process—such as ...
The Art and Science of Persuasive Legal Writing
This book hits the sweet spot between books that focus only on briefs and books that try to do too much.