Jailhouse Stylistics Notes on Legal Style and Rhetoric

Student notes on legal style and rhetoric including rhetorical figures of speech, structure, and dramatic techniques, elements of functional grammar, sentence analysis, and suggestions for document organization and presentation. This text surveys a variety of important works on writing , providing a practical reference to legal writers, with a topical guide and glossary. Finally, it provides a complete grammatical analysis of two legal opinions by the much admired Supreme Court jurist Judge Robert W. Jackson.