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    This document provides guidance for editing a legal brief. It outlines 12 areas to review such as ensuring statutory language and rules of construction are included, discussions of case interpretations are adequately explained and supported, facts are discussed appropriately, point headings and topic sentences are clear, transitions and sentence structure are logical, citations are formatted correctly, and the brief follows the checklist and court rules. Revisions are recommended where any areas are inconsistent or incomplete.

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    This document provides guidance for editing a legal brief. It outlines 12 areas to review such as ensuring statutory language and rules of construction are included, discussions of case interpretations are adequately explained and supported, facts are discussed appropriately, point headings and topic sentences are clear, transitions and sentence structure are logical, citations are formatted correctly, and the brief follows the checklist and court rules. Revisions are recommended where any areas are inconsistent or incomplete.

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    Editing Your Brief

    Transféré par

    jarabbo
    This document provides guidance for editing a legal brief. It outlines 12 areas to review such as ensuring statutory language and rules of construction are included, discussions of case interpretations are adequately explained and supported, facts are discussed appropriately, point headings and topic sentences are clear, transitions and sentence structure are logical, citations are formatted correctly, and the brief follows the checklist and court rules. Revisions are recommended where any areas are inconsistent or incomplete.

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    EditingYourBriefProfessorLysaght 1. STATUTORYLANGUAGE Highlightthestatutorylanguageyouhavequotedinyourbrief. Haveyougiventherelevantstatutorylanguageineachsection? Ifnot,revisetoinclude. 2. RULESOFSTATUTORYCONSTRUCTION Highlighttherulesofstatutoryconstructionineachsectionofyourbrief. Haveyoureferredtothoserulesineachsection? Haveyoucitedtheappropriatecasestosupportthoserules? Ifnot,revise. 3. DISCUSSIONOFCOURTSINTERPRETATIONSOFTHESTATUTE Highlightthediscussionofhowthecourtshaveinterpretedthestatutorylanguage. Haveyouplacedthatdiscussionwithinthecontextoftherulesofstatutory construction?Ifnot,revise. Haveyouadequatelyexplainedthecourtspositions?Ifnot,revise.

    fnot,revise. Haveyoucitedcasestosupportthatexplanation?Ifnot,doso. Haveyouindicatedappropriatelywherethereiscontraryauthority?Haveyou explainedwhythisCourtshouldnotfollowthatcontraryreasoning?Ifnot,revise. 4. DISCUSSIONOFFACTSOFOURCASEINTHEARGUMENTSECTION Highlightalldiscussionsofthefactsofourcases. Arethefactsdiscussedinaseparateparagraph?Ifnot,revise. Arethefactsonlydiscussedinthecontextoftherule/interpretationyouare advocating?Ifnot,revise. 5. POINTHEADINGS Highlightyourpointheadings. Dothepointheadingsaccuratelyreflectyourargument?Ifnot,revise. Dothepointheadings,whenreadtogether,reflectthekeypointsinyourbrief?Ifnot, revise. Dothepointheadingsfollowanacceptableformat?Aretheycompletesentences? Singlespaced?Ifnot,revise.

    6. TOPICSENTENCES. Highlightyourtopicsentencesitmaybethefirsttwosentencesinsomeofyour paragraphs. Readthosesentencesonly.Haveyoumissedoneofyourmainpoints?Ifso,revise. Compareyourtopicsentenceswiththerestofthesentencesineachparagraph. Doeseachsentencesupportorfurtherexplainthattopicsentence?Ifnot,revise. Lookattheorderofeachsentenceintheparagraph.Istherealogicalflowtothe paragraph?E.g.,areyoumovingfromthefamiliartothenewineachsentence?Ifnot, revise. 7. TRANSITIONS Readthelastsentenceofeachparagraphandthefirstsentenceinthenextparagraph. Doesthenewideaflowfromtheoldidea?Ifnot,revise. 8. SENTENCESTRUCTURE Lookforlongsentencesandsentenceswithcommas. Shouldanyofthosesentencesbemadeintotwosentences?Ifso,revise. Areyouusingcommascorrectly?Isthereanideathatisembeddedthatshouldbeits ownsentence?Ifso,revise. Lookatanymodifyingphrases.Isthephrasenexttothewordyouintendtomodify?If not,revise. 9. SUBJECTSANDVERBS Foreachsentence,highlightthesubjectandtheintendedactionofthesentence. Lookatthebeginningofeachsentence.Haveyouprovidedthereaderwiththetopicof thesentenceinthesubjectposition?Haveyouclearlyidentifiedthesubjectorareyou relyingonapronoun(it,this,those,they)?Ifnecessary,revise. Identifytheactionineachsentence.Doyouexpressitasaverb?Ifnot,revise. Doyouhavethesubjectandverbclosetogether?Ifnot,revise. 10. CITATIONS Printoutacleancopyofbrief. Highlighteverycitation.CheckALWDmanualtodeterminewhatisnecessaryforafull citation. Makesurethatthefirsttimeacitationappears,youhaveafullcitation. Makesureyouhaveapinpointciteforthecasecitations.

    11. PROOFREAD Printoutacleancopyofyourbrief. Readthebriefoutloud. Checktomakesureyouhaveincludedperiodswhereneededattheendofevery sentencebeforeyouprovideacitation. Checktomakesureyouhavesetcasecitationsthatareembeddedinasentenceapart fromthesentencewithcommas.(Butonlyforsinglecitations.Ifyouareusingmore thanonecitationinthetextualsentence,usecitationclausesorembeddedcitations.) ArethereanycommonmistakesyoumadeinMemo2?Makesureyoudonotrepeat themwiththisbrief. 12. CHECKLIST/COURTRULES Compareeverysectionofyourbrieftothechecklistandcourtrules. Iseachsectionconsistentwiththechecklistandcourtrules?Ifnot,revise.

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