All Articles tagged rhetoric

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  March 01, 2023 EDT
  Recovering Grammar
  Rachel T. Goldberg

  Grammar shouldn't be divorced from "the rest" of legal writing because grammar itself is necessary for and deeply tied to meaning-making and social practices.

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  March 01, 2020 EDT
  The Committed Legal Writer
  Deborah S. GordonKaitlin O’Donnell

  How might those of us in the legal profession respond to concerns about power and illegitimacy without giving up hope and descending into cynicism?

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  March 01, 2020 EDT
  “Liven Their Life Up Just a Little Bit”:* Good Pacing Persuades Judges
  Julie A. Oseid

  Pacing is a critical component of great fiction writing, but it is rarely mentioned in legal writing. This article suggests that pacing is a critical tool for legal writing.

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  March 01, 2019 EDT
  An Exaggerated Demise: The Endurance of Formalism in Legal Rhetoric in the Face of Neuroscience
  Adam G. Todd

  Many scholars have stated that formalism is dead. However, formalism is alive and well and living in legal rhetoric.

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• Book Reviews
  March 01, 2018 EDT
  Book Review: Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi, Routledge 2017, 170 Pages
  Lori D. JohnsonSarah Morath

  A review of Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science

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  March 01, 2016 EDT
  Visual Rhetoric: Topics of Invention and Arrangement and Tropes of Style
  Michael D. Murray

  One picture can replace a thousand words of legal discourse.

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• Articles
  March 01, 2016 EDT
  Ethos, Character, and Discoursal Self in Persuasive Legal Writing
  J. Christopher Rideout

  If rhetoric is commonly defined as the art of persuasion, then persuasion itself may be seen as the art of convincing through character.

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• Articles
  March 01, 2015 EDT
  Understanding Voice: Writing in a Judicial Context
  Andrea McArdle

  Becoming attuned to how an opinion is voiced allows us to make our way past surface rhetoric to aid our understanding of its deeper structures of meaning.

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• Articles
  March 01, 2010 EDT
  Studying and Teaching “Law as Rhetoric”: A Place to Stand
  Linda L. Berger

  I propose in this Article to offer law students a rhetorical place to stand, between reason and power.

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  March 01, 2010 EDT
  The Past, Presence, and Future of Legal Writing Scholarship: Rhetoric, Voice, and Community
  Linda L. BergerLinda H. EdwardsTerrill Pollman

  This article was published in Volume 16 as part of the symposium “The Legal Writing Institute: Celebrating 25 Years of Teaching & Scholarship.”

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  March 01, 2007 EDT
  The Third Paradigm: Bringing Legal Writing “Out of the Box” and Into the Mainstream: A Marriage of Doctrinal Subject Matter and Legal Writing Doctrine
  Laurie C. Kadoch

  Current discussion has begun to debunk the core belief supporting the imposed schism that only pure doctrinal courses have the intellectual heft necessary for inclusion in mainstream law school curricula.

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