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The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts

By Bryan A. Garner

ISBN: 9780195170757
ASIN: B00A2KBYTE

Published: 2004

Number of Pages: 528

Edition: 2nd

Binding: Hardcover


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Product Type: Book

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Description: Good legal writing wins court cases. It its first edition, The Winning Brief proved that the key to writing well is understanding the judicial readership. Now, in a revised and updated version of this modern classic, Bryan A. Garner explains the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use sections. Covering everything from the rules for planning and organizing a brief to openers that can capture a judge's attention from the first few words, these tips add up to the most compelling, orderly, and visually appealing brief that an advocate can present.In Garner's view, good writing is good thinking put to paper. "Never write a sentence that you couldn't easily speak," he warns-and demonstrates how to do just that. Beginning each tip with a set of quotable quotes from experts, he then gives masterly advice on building sound paragraphs, drafting crisp sentences, choosing the best words ("Strike pursuant to from your vocabulary."), quoting authority, citing sources, and designing a document that looks as impressive as it reads.Throughout, he shows how to edit for maximal impact, using vivid before-and-after examples that apply the basics of rhetoric to persuasive writing. Filled with examples of good and bad writing from actual briefs filed in courts of all types, The Winning Brief also covers the new appellate rules for preparing federal briefs. Constantly collecting material from his seminars and polling judges for their preferences, the second edition delivers the same solid guidelines with even more supporting evidence.Including for the first time sections on the ever-changing rules of acceptable legal writing, Garner's new edition keeps even the most seasoned lawyers on their toes and writing briefs that win cases. An invaluable resource for attorneys, law clerks, judges, paralegals, law students and their teachers, The Winning Brief has the qualities that make all of Garner's books so popular: authority, accessibility, and page after page of techniques that work. If you're writing to win a case, this book shouldn't merely be on your shelf--it should be open on your desk.


Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2004043398
   - LC control Number: 2004043398

National Bibliography Number
   - Source: bnbGBA430746

International Standard Book Number: 019517075X019517075X (alk. paper)

Geographic Area Code: n-us---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: KF251
   - Item number: .G37 2004

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 808/.06634

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Garner, Bryan A.

Title Statement
   - Title: The winning brief :
   - Remainder of title: 100 tips for persuasive briefing in trial and appellate courts /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Bryan A. Garner.

Edition Statement: 2nd ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Oxford ;
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Oxford University Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2004.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xi, 516 p. ;
   - Dimensions: 26 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-514) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: Composing in an orderly, sensible way -- Conveying the big picture -- Marching forward through sound paragraphs -- Editing for brisk, uncluttered sentences -- Choosing the best words -- Punctuating for clarity and impact -- Becoming proficient in designing text -- Sidestepping some common quirks -- Capitalizing on little-used persuasive strategies -- Hitting your stride as a brief-writer.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Source of heading or term: bclaw
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Briefs
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Legal briefs
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Legal composition.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Legal_Analysis_and_Writing
   - Geographic subdivision: United States
   - Geographic subdivision: United States.


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