{"product_id":"the-winning-brief-100-tips-for-persuasive-briefing-in-trial-and-appellate-courts-9780199378357","title":"The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn its first two editions  The Winning Brief explained the art of effective writing in 100 concise  practical  and easy-to-use tips  proving that the key to writing well is to understand the judicial readership. This third edition of Bryan A. Garners modern classic delivers the same invaluable guidelines with even more supporting evidence. Covering everything from the rules for planning and organizing a brief to openers that can capture a judges attention from the first few words  these tips add up to the most compelling  orderly  and visually appealing brief that an advocate can present.  In Garners view  good writing is good thinking put to paper. \"Never write a sentence that you couldnt easily speak \" he warns - and demonstrates how to do just that. Every tip begins with a set of quotable quotes from experts  followed by Garners masterly advice on building sound paragraphs  drafting crisp sentences  choosing the best words (\"Strike pursuant to from your vocabulary.\")  quoting authority  citing sources  and designing a document that looks as impressive as it reads. Throughout  Garner shows how to edit for maximal impact  using vivid before-and-after examples that apply the basics of rhetoric to persuasive writing.  In this much-expanded third edition  Garner has perfected the text with nine new tips  hundreds of new examples  and amplified explanations throughout-all in his trademark style. Among the new sections are tips on understanding judges reading habits  answering opponents arguments  writing effective reply briefs  using authorities persuasively  and organizing arguments based on statutes and contracts. Quotable quotes  which Garner carefully assembled after years of wide reading and close study  have been expanded and improved throughout the book. There is also a new appendix on a remarkable brief that some consider the best ever written (\"a beautiful marriage of rhetorical skill  thorough research  and humane lawyering\").  Perhaps the biggest change to this edition is that every tip now ends with a summary checklist that recaps and crystalizes the subpoints just covered  with further ideas for improvement. Garner conceived these checklists in part as a way to help readers approach his book as a set of 100 tutorials. Reviewing and practicing each tip will offer brief-writers a degree of mastery that more cavalier colleagues will find difficult to equal.  An invaluable resource for attorneys  law clerks  judges  paralegals  law students and their teachers  The Winning Brief has the qualities that make all of Garners books so popular: authority  accessibility  and page after page of techniques that work. If youre writing to win a case  this book shouldnt merely be on your shelf--it should be open on your desk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665824309301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0199378355","price":113.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780199378357.jpg?v=1782408760","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-winning-brief-100-tips-for-persuasive-briefing-in-trial-and-appellate-courts-9780199378357","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}