The Legal Writing Handbook Practice Book: Practice book Book

BOOK 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO LAW (There are no research exercises for Book 1)

BOOK 2: INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL RESEARCH AND OBJECTIVE AND ADVISORY WRITING

Chapter 6 Exercises: Research Involving State Statutes

• State Practice Manuals
• Hornbooks and Nutshells
• Google
• State Statutes: The Names of State Codes
• State Regulations: The Names of State Administrative Codes
• Locating State Statutes
• The Names of State Reporters
• Locating Cases in State and Regional Reporters
• Research Exercise

Chapter 9 Exercises: Research Involving State Common Law

• Background Reading
• Digests
• Reporter
• Research Exercise

Chapter 12 Exercises: Research Involving Federal Statutes and Regulations

• Background Reading
• Federal Statutes
• Federal Regulations
• Locating Cases That Discuss the Constitutionality of a Statute
• Sources for U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
• Sources for Law Review Articles
• Research Exercise

Chapter 15: Research Involving Local Law

• City Charters
• Municipal Ordinances
• Simple Research Exercise
• More Complicated Research Exercise

BOOK 3: INTRODUCTION TO PERSUASIVE WRITING AND ORAL ADVOCACY (There are no research exercises for Book 3)

BOOK 4: A GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE AND CORRECT WRITING

Part I: Guide to Effective Writing

Chapter 22: Effective Paragraphs

• Paragraph Length
• Topic Sentences
• Paragraph Blocks

Chapter 23: Connections Between Sentences

• Generic Transitions
• Dovetailing

Chapter 24: Effective Sentences

• Active and Passive Voice
• Passive Voice
• Concrete Subjects
• Action Verbs
• Subject-Verb Distance
• Sentence Length
• Emphasis
• Single Word Emphasizers
• Changing Word Order
• Breaking a Pattern

Chapter 25: Effective Words

• Word Choice
• Appropriate Comparisons
• Subject-Verb-Object Combinations
• Conciseness
• Legales
• Gender-Neutral Language
• Bias-Free Language

Part II: Guide to Correct Writing

Chapter 27: Grammar

• Fragments
• Verb Tense
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Pronoun Agreement
• Ambiguous Pronouns
• Broad Pronoun Reference
• Pronoun Antecedents
• Modifier Placement
• Misplaced Modifiers
• Dangling Modifiers
• Parallelism

Chapter 28: Punctuation

• Commas
• Semicolons
• Colons
• Apostrophes
• Other Marks of Punctuation
• Hyphens
• Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

BOOK 6: LEGAL WRITING FOR ENGLISH-AS-A-SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENTS

Chapter 30: English-as-a-Second-Language Grammar

• Count and Non-count Nouns
• Articles: A, An, The
• Auxiliary, or Helping, Verbs