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Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief: Meeting the Four Challenges of Legal Writing David N. Greenwald ISBN 9781639056552

Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief is a practical, comprehensive guide to writing legal briefs, informed by decades of experience working and teaching at one of the nation’s leading law firms. The book is built around a central idea: effective briefs reflect careful attention to the sequence and structure of words, sentences, paragraphs, and arguments. It shows how to organize these essential building blocks of legal prose and illustrates its guidance with clear before-and-after examples drawn from real filed briefs. Unlike other books on legal writing, it provides as many actionable tips for structuring arguments and full briefs as for drafting individual sentences and paragraphs, focusing on the real-world challenges litigators encounter daily.

This practice-tested approach addresses topics often overlooked in other legal writing texts, including how to:

• Reposition words within a sentence to increase persuasiveness

• Classify paragraphs to organize arguments effectively

• Improve paragraph flow and coherence

• Strengthen professional diction to enhance credibility

• Group related contentions for more cohesive arguments

• Control the tone of background statements to advance a client’s position

• Refine and coordinate argument headings to guide judges through complex arguments

• Structure tables of contents to clearly reveal a brief’s logic

• Edit others’ drafts efficiently and collaboratively

• Improve your own writing independently

Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief: Meeting the Four Challenges of Legal Writing David N. Greenwald ISBN 9781639056552, 978-1639056552 & 9781639056569

Author
David N. Greenwald