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Below is volume 6 of J. ALWD. Please click on the inside tab to see the titles of the articles within a particular issue: the titles are linked to the online full text and to PDF files that may be downloaded.
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Fall 2009 ~ Best Practices in Persuasion
Hoping to enrich, enliven, and encourage the study and practice of legal rhetoric and writing, we have selected articles for this issue that range from empirical study of the issue statements in appellate briefs to quantitative analysis of law review articles; they turn to early literary theory and Abraham Lincoln’s writing habits to advise today’s legal writers; they explore the effects of narrative construction and characterization models on legal argument; and they suggest ways that contemporary rhetoric and developmental psychology may counter some of the negative effects of legal education on law students.
Fall 2009 ~ Best Practices in Persuasion
articles
Got Issues? An Empirical Study about Framing Them
Judith D. Fischer
The Power of Brevity: Adopt Abraham Lincoln's Habits
Julie A. Oseid
The Poetry of Persuasion: Early Literary Theory and Its Advice to Legal Writers
Stephen E. Smith
Persuasion: An Annotated Bibliography
Kathryn Stanchi
classics
The Narrative Construction of Legal Reality
Richard K. Sherwin
Characterization and Legal Discourse
Laura E. Little
General Articles
Legal Writing and Disciplinary Knowledge-Building: A Comparative Study
Douglas M. Coulson
"The Play of Those Who Have Not Yet Heard of Games": Creativity, Compliance, and the "Good Enough" Law Teacher
Mary R. Falk