Advanced Legal Writing: Theories and Strategies in Persuasive Writing

by Michael R. Smith

Book Overview

With a practical focus on persuasive writing strategies, Advanced Legal Writing: Theory and Strategies in Persuasive Writing explores three classical techniques: logos, pathos, and ethos, and provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735556598
• ISBN13: 9780735556591
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful and deep

This is the most thoughtful book on persuasive writing I've ever read. It approaches the subject with scholarly exuberance. It covers many fine points that are often missing from texts on persuasive legal writing: ethical persuasion, rhetoric, polish. But to the extent that it is scholarly and is a text for an advanced legal writing class in law school, it will probably seem a little too much for the practicing lawyer. Only the most dedicated appellate specialist will find it useful, I predict.