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1. Legal writing and analysis [2015]

Book
xix, 362 pages : illustrations, forms ; 26 cm.
  • Overview of the lawyer's role
  • The legal system, the common law process, and kinds of authority
  • Briefing and synthesizing cases
  • Interpreting statutes
  • Forms of legal reasoning
  • The writing process and law-trained readers
  • Large-scale organization : creating an annotated outline
  • Small-scale organization : explaining the law
  • Small-scale organization : applying the law
  • Discussing multiple issues : putting it all together
  • Deepening your analysis
  • Writing an office memo
  • Writing professional letters and emails
  • Introduction to brief-writing
  • Questions presented and point headings
  • Writing the argument section
  • Standards of review
  • Writing a fact statement
  • Using legal theory to sharpen your arguments
  • Citations and quotations
  • Paragraphs, sentences, and style
  • Oral argument.
Law Library (Crown)
LAW-219-01, LAW-219-01, LAW-219-01, LAW-224A-01, LAW-224A-01, LAW-7816-01, LAW-7827-01

2. Just writing : grammar, punctuation, and style for the legal writer [2013]

Book
xxi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  • Introduction
  • Effective writing : the whole paper
  • Connections between paragraphs
  • Effective paragraphs
  • Connections between sentences
  • Effective sentences
  • Effective words
  • Eloquence
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Legal writing for English-as-a-second-language writers.
Law Library (Crown)
LAW-219-01, LAW-219-02, LAW-219-03, LAW-224A-01, LAW-7816-01, LAW-7827-01

3. Making your case : the art of persuading judges [2008]

Book
xxiv, 245 p. ; 22 cm.
  • General principles of argumentation
  • Legal reasoning
  • Briefing
  • Oral argument.
Law Library (Crown)
LAW-224A-01, LAW-224A-02, LAW-224A-03, LAW-224A-04, LAW-224A-05, LAW-224A-06, LAW-224A-07, LAW-224A-08, LAW-224A-09, LAW-224A-10, LAW-7817-01

4. Titicut follies [videorecording] : a documentary [1967]

  • Cambridge, MA : Zipporah Films, [200-?]
Video
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Filmed at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, scenes of the daily life and treatment of the men are interspersed with shots from the inmates' talent show.
Law Library (Crown)
LAW-224A-01, LAW-224B-06, LAW-757-01

5. The bluebook : a uniform system of citation [1991 - ]

  • Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Law Review Association, c1991-
Journal/Periodical
v. ; 21 cm.
Law Library (Crown)
LAW-219-01, LAW-219-02, LAW-219-03, LAW-219-04, LAW-219-05, LAW-219-06, LAW-224A-01, LAW-224A-02, LAW-224A-03, LAW-224A-04, LAW-224A-05, LAW-224A-06, LAW-224A-07, LAW-224A-08, LAW-224A-09, LAW-224A-10, LAW LIBRARY RESERVE

6. Titicut follies [videorecording] [1967]

  • Cambridge, MA : Distributed by Zipporah Films, c1967.
Video
1 videocassette (84 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 1/2 in.
A documentary account of life in a prison for the criminally insane, located in Bridgewater, Mass. Shows scenes of the daily life of the men, interspersed with shots from the inmates' talent show, the "Titicut follies".
Law Library (Crown)
LAW-224A-01, LAW-224B-06, LAW-757-01