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 Approach
demystifies 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