Featured Title: Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief

Legal writing is one of the many skills that evades complete instruction. If you’re struggling with writing a brief or legal argument, Jenkins Law Library has recently added a new title to our collection that may help! Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief: Meeting the Four Challenges of Legal Writing is a new ABA title that offers detailed guidance for meeting the challenges of legal writing. Offering examples of filed briefs, this book may be a helpful tool to attorneys and self-represented litigants alike. 

Sentence, Paragraph, Argument, Brief is a practical guide to writing briefs, with specific advice down to the level of how to structure individual sentences. Centered around the theme that good briefs reflect attention to the sequence of words, sentences, paragraphs, and arguments, this book offers a helpful approach to legal writing. 

Examples of topics addressed in this book include how to:

• Position words in a sentence to enhance its persuasiveness

• Classify paragraphs to help organize arguments

• Group related contentions together to make arguments more coherent

• Refine and coordinate argument headings to help ease judges into arguments

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

• And more!

This book is available for library members to check out, as well as available for in-house use for daily library users. For information on free book pulling for library members, visit this link.