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Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer, Seventh Edition, features the authors’ famously effective step-by-step approach to writing and editing legal documents effectively. With numerous examples, including briefs and memos, Just Writing walks students through the process of drafting and revising legal writing to make the argument and language as correct and clear as possible. This text also discusses the expectations of legal writing and argument in American and other cultures, as well as a chapter devoted to helping ESL students develop their writing skills.

New to the Seventh Edition:

• Updated and expanded sections on bias-free language, including a chapter devoted to the topic.
• Updates and advice about the use of Generative AI in the legal writing classroom and the practice of law.
• Effective, hands-on examples of how to create arguments that take into account rhetorical bias.

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Step-by-step instruction on how to write and edit effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.
• Numerous examples, including extended examples of writing in legal memos and briefs.
• Unique focus on legal writing and style in the English language.
• Resources for, and a chapter devoted to, ESL law students.