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    The document discusses the importance of effective legal writing. It notes that legal writing must be concise, clear, and engaging. There are two types of legal writing - analysis of a legal problem or issue, and persuasive writing. Good legal writing promotes the reader's ability to make important decisions by being clear, concise, and engaging. Clarity requires proper grammar, punctuation, ordinary words, and simple sentences. Concise writing efficiently conveys the appropriate level of detail. Engaging writing presents information in a lively way to hold readers' interest, regardless of how sound the reasoning. The IRAC format of issue, rule, application, and conclusion is commonly used for legal arguments. Students are assigned to

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    The document discusses the importance of effective legal writing. It notes that legal writing must be concise, clear, and engaging. There are two types of legal writing - analysis of a legal problem or issue, and persuasive writing. Good legal writing promotes the reader's ability to make important decisions by being clear, concise, and engaging. Clarity requires proper grammar, punctuation, ordinary words, and simple sentences. Concise writing efficiently conveys the appropriate level of detail. Engaging writing presents information in a lively way to hold readers' interest, regardless of how sound the reasoning. The IRAC format of issue, rule, application, and conclusion is commonly used for legal arguments. Students are assigned to

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    The document discusses the importance of effective legal writing. It notes that legal writing must be concise, clear, and engaging. There are two types of legal writing - analysis of a legal problem or issue, and persuasive writing. Good legal writing promotes the reader's ability to make important decisions by being clear, concise, and engaging. Clarity requires proper grammar, punctuation, ordinary words, and simple sentences. Concise writing efficiently conveys the appropriate level of detail. Engaging writing presents information in a lively way to hold readers' interest, regardless of how sound the reasoning. The IRAC format of issue, rule, application, and conclusion is commonly used for legal arguments. Students are assigned to

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    Legal Writing

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    Fransiska Ade Kurnia Widodo
    The document discusses the importance of effective legal writing. It notes that legal writing must be concise, clear, and engaging. There are two types of legal writing - analysis of a legal problem or issue, and persuasive writing. Good legal writing promotes the reader's ability to make important decisions by being clear, concise, and engaging. Clarity requires proper grammar, punctuation, ordinary words, and simple sentences. Concise writing efficiently conveys the appropriate level of detail. Engaging writing presents information in a lively way to hold readers' interest, regardless of how sound the reasoning. The IRAC format of issue, rule, application, and conclusion is commonly used for legal arguments. Students are assigned to

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    Law and English

    Fransiska Ade Kurnia Widodo, SH.,LL.M


    [email protected]
    +6282110601987
    Legal Writing

    •  Any legal document must be concise, clear and engaging

    •  Two types of legal writing:


    •  The first type requires a balanced analysis of a legal
    problem or issue
    •  The second type of legal writing is persuasive

    In the context of legal writing, a good writing means


    writing that promotes the readers’ ability to make the
    important decisions legal readers need to make in the
    course of their professional duties.
    Legal writing
    •  Clarity
    •  it is only when writing is clear that the reader
    can accurately comprehend the writer‘s message
    and use that infor mation to facilitate
    professional decision-making
    •  clarity requires proper (i.e., conventional)
    grammar and punctuation
    •  Use ordinary words
    •  Use simple sentence structures
    Legal writing

    •  Concise
    •  Concise writing is efficient writing
    •  Concise writing means conveying the
    appropriate level of details
    •  Concise writing is writing that is as succinct
    as possible without unduly restricting the
    amount of information conveyed
    Legal writing

    •  Engaging
    •  No matter how sound your reasoning, if it is presented in a dull and
    turgid setting, your hearers—or your readers—will turn aside. They
    will not stop to listen. They will flick over the pages. But if it is
    presented in a lively and attractive setting, they will sit up and take
    notice. They will listen as if spellbound. They will read you with
    engrossment

    •  readers will not want to keep reading a


    document, no matter how clear and concise
    it is, if it does not engage their interest
    LEGAL WRITING

    •  IRAC formats
    •  Issue
    •  Rule
    •  Application
    •  Conclusion
    Assignment

    •  Write a one page arguments on Gun Control’s policy


    in the United States of America
    •  Font: Times New Roman
    •  Size: 12
    •  Paragraph: Justified
    •  Space: 1.5
    Use IRAC rules to create your legal arguments
    •  In the next meeting, each student will have 10 minutes to
    present his/her argument in front of the class
    •  The written and oral arguments must be made in English

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