Overview
Description
Introduction to the process, structure and forms of legal argument and writing and citation skills.
Requirements
Corequisites
CRJ 126
Original catalog text
Corequisites
Corequisite(s): CRJ 126.
Units
Lecture1
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- identify the various types of formal and informal legal writing and their purposes.
- identify critical issues of format and court rules in drafting legal pleadings.
- describe persuasive writing and explain its importance to the legal system.
- identify the components of various types of informal legal writing and describe the importance of each to the analysis of real-life cases.
- draft a well-written and organized, simple legal document/project utilizing the basic principles of legal writing and analysis learned in the course.