Learning to write like a lawyer requires more than passive reading and listening to lectures; it requires active learning. Legal Analysis and Writing: An Active-Learning Approachdemystifies the process of analyzing a fact pattern and translating that analysis into succinct and objective writing. This book’s scaffolded approach emphasizes an incremental presentation of the best practices of legal writing while offering a wide variety of features to help rising lawyers master the form and function of the documents they will compose in practice.

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Study guide questions for each chapter to help students focus their reading
• Detailed explanations throughout the book, allowing students to understand the writing process
• Check-in exercises enabling students to test their understanding
• Plentiful writing examples to provide students with models for good writing
• Templates, worksheets, and checklists to help students analyze the law and assess their writing
• A detailed glossary to help students master key terminology
• In-class application exercises, quizzes, and more
• Support for flipped classroom and/or team-based learning models of instruction