A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Meth... more

A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method, now in its Fourth Edition, continues to provide complete, timely coverage with the clarity and precision that have made this text so popular with students and teachers.A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Method, Fourth Edition, features: basic coverage of the essential principles of legal writing and legal method a flexible presentation of legal reasoning and analysis skills a series of accessible, step-by-step guidelines that neatly unpack each topic focused exercises that develop legal writing and reasoning skills a consistent and integrated emphasis on professionalism and the rules of professional conduct illustrative examples in the Appendices an extensive Teachers Manual that includes additional exercises, teaching suggestions, and advice for new teachersUpdated throughout, the revised Fourth Edition provides: new material on electronic communication, including electronic writing, editing, and filing, and email etiquette and ethics a new chapter on client letters that focuses on the legal memo and rules for writing an opinion letter expanded coverage of how to organize a legal memo simplified treatment of how to structure an argument and persuasive writing exercises developed specifically for classroom use additional sample client letters in the AppendicesA landmark title in its field, the fourth edition of A Practical Guide to Legal Writing and Legal Methodconstitutes a thorough revision of a classic for a new generation of law students... less

This book is a compilation of classic short stori... more

This book is a compilation of classic short stories by the worlds greatest writers. The stories have been carefully chosen to showcase the authors versatility and skill as storytellers. The collection covers an extraordinary range of themes, styles and settings, allowing the reader to get a glimpse of another world gone by. Yet, these stories seem timeless, and the characters in them show the same foibles, fears and hopes as people in the brave new world of the 21st century. This collection includes works by:E.M. Forster, Walter de la Mare, Joseph Conrad, Mulk Raj Anand, Katherine Mansfield, Anatole France, Karel Capek, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Hans Christian Andersen, Giovanni Boccaccio, Nizami, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, W. Somerset Maugham, R.L. Stevenson, Liam OFlaherty, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chehov, Maxim Gorky, Miguel Cervantes, Luigi Pirandello, Richard F. Burton, O. Henry and Ernest Hemingway... less