综合推理Synthesis, 2E
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作者： Deborah A. Schmedemann 著
出 版 社： Aspen Publishers
出版时间： 2003-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 546印刷时间： 2003/12/01开本：印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780735527775包装： 平装内容简介
SYNTHESIS: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Writing, Third Edition takes a step-by-step approach to outlining effective legal reasoning and writing skills. This in-depth text offers complete coverage of memo and brief writing, using one continual example to tie together the materials in the book. Utilizing a pedagogy that caters to a variety of learning styles, this text teaches students how to think like a lawyer and encourages an active application of skills through exercises and problem-solving opportunities.
An abundance of solid features make 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 HomeElderCare 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 exercises in the book based on a tort law issue that is particularly understandable for first-year students 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 syllabiThoughtful 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 demand letter includes additional material on pleadings (complaints, answers, and discovery documents) provides updated exercises and citation materials supports negotiation by looking at how legal analysis frames deals and shapes dispute resolution
目录
List of Exhibits
List of Studies and Ethics Boxes
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Lawyer's Roles and the Legal System
Chapter 2 The Structure of Legal Rules
Chapter 3 Reading Cases
Chapter 4 Fusing Cases
Chapter 5 Reading Statutes
Chapter 6 Interpreting Statutes
Chapter 7 Reading Commentary
Chapter 8 Applying a Rule to Facts: Deductive Reasoning
Chapter 9 Applying a Rule to Facts: Reasoning by Example and Policy Analysis
Chapter 10 Advisory Writing: The Function and Format of the Office Memo
Chapter 11 The Office Memo: The Discussion
Chapter 12 The Office Memo: Issues, Short Answers, and Conclusion
Chapter 13 The Office Memo: The Facts
Chapter 14 Advisory Writing: The Function and Format of the Advice Letter
Chapter 15 Advocacy Writing in the Pre-Trial and Trial Setting: The Function and Format of the Motion Practice Memorandum
Chapter 16 Fundamentals of Advocacy
Chapter 17 Advocacy Writing in the Appellate Setting: The Function and Format of the Appellate Brief
Chapter 18 Advanced Advocacy
Chapter 19 Oral Advocacy
HomeElderCare Case File
Appendix I The Writing Process
Appendix II Paragraph Design, Sentence Structure, and Word Usage
Appendix III.A Citation: ALWD Citation Manual
Appendix III.B Citation: The Bluebook
Appendix IV Contract Drafting
Exercises
Table of Authorities
Index
