Instructors who want to concentrate on the basics of legal writing will welcome the new edition of this successful process-oriented text. Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, Fifth Edition , is a concise and straightforward guide for the beginner. The book is designed to facilitate learning:

- Provides a basic guide to the skills of legal writing;

- Process-oriented text takes students step-by-step through outlining, creating a working draft, creating the final document, and revising effectively;

- Teaches reasoning and writing as two interrelated processes by integrating creating a rule of law into the writing process and linking it to the large-scale organization of the document. The author pays close attention to different learning styles, keeping the book teachable and accessible;

- Concrete explanations and examples reinforce the material;

- Exercises help students build their writing skills;

- Appendices include a sample office memorandum, trial brief, appellate brief, and cases uses in the examples and exercises. Changes for the Fifth Edition enhance the teachability of the book:

- Two more sample documents are introduced, and all the documents in the appendices are identified as examples of particular common kinds of analysis; - Materials are streamlined wherever possible to control the length of the text;

- Citation materials are fully updated.