Introduction 1
1.Purposes and Forms of Legal Writing 3
2.Large-Scale Organization 13
3.Small-Scale Organization: Paragraphs,Paragraphs Blocks,and Transitions 33
4.Sentence Desing 63
5.Language in zhe Legal Setting 101
6.The Total Product: Advisory Letters to Lay Persons;Office Research Memo-randa 143
7.The Total Product: Appellate Briefs and Argumenttative Memoranda 164
8.Punctuation,Grammar,and Mechanics 199
Selected References 239
Index 247