Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication

By Christina L. Kunz and Deborah A. Schmedemann

Book Overview

Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication employs a successful step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a client's situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a variety of ways, the text incorporates numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners. Exercises--based on tort law issues that are particularly accessible to first-year students--provide opportunities for active application of skills. Also included is complete coverage of memo and brief writing. The book is accompanied by a Teacher's Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to most effectively use the book, and sample syllabi.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1454886501
• ISBN13: 9781454886501
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Aspen Publishing
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.9"