Legal research and writing

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Beyond the First Draft was written with law students, practitioners, and legal writing professors in mind. Its straightforward approach makes even those difficult-to-understand grammatical concepts accessible to everyone through frequent, easy-to-understand reminders, explanations, and examples.

The purpose of this book is to get you started and guide you through the full scholarly writing process, from drafting to publishing. This book has chapters on crafting a thesis, critical legal analysis, and specific help on writing capstone/seminar papers

This books outlines the process of writing a major paper

This book includes chapters on topic selection, writing a draft and incorporating feedback

This book provides a step-by-step guide to the writing process for academic writing and includes specific chapters on writing term papers, law reviews, and publishing tips.

See Part II on developing a thesis question from a topic

See Chapter 22 on legal writing. This includes components of a legal memo and a sample memo

See Chapter 4 on writing a memo, Chapter 5: writing a brief, Chapter 6: writing a factum

See Chapter 11: Legal Writing for a breakdown of the process of legal writing

See Chapter 13 for writing intraoffice memos, memos and appellate briefs

This book details the process of writings factums

See Chapter 13 for writing a memo, letter of opinion, affidavit, case or legislative comment, factum, mediation brief and motion

See Chapters 10-13 on writing a legal memo, Chapter 14: opinion letter, Chapter 15: motion brief, Chapter 17: appellate factum

Two volumes.