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Lewis Library - ML207.C8 O77 2018

Lewis Library - ML410.N667 A25 2018

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Dewey Library - HG177.5.U6 M56 2019

Published: April 2012

This practical desk reference has proven to be one of the most comprehensive and reliable legal reading, reasoning, and writing guides available today.

Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning and Writing in Canada, 3rd Edition will help students and legal practitioners to:

• Write more effective legal memos, opinion letters, briefs, arguments, status reports, pleadings, and draft opinions;
• Learn how to use primary and secondary legal resources in making legal arguments; and
• Develop skills in legal reading, reasoning, and research using examples, exercises, charts, and diagrams

What's new:

• Expanded introductory chapter with new information on lawyering in the digital age, requirements for becoming a lawyer and professional discipline
• New material on the contribution of aboriginal and European legal  traditions to the development of Canadian law 
• New material on equitable jurisdiction and the use of equitable maxims in framing arguments
• New material on aboriginal courts  
• Expanded and updated discussion of research approaches and the use of electronic legal materials
• Updated appendices of reference works, websites and legal blogs

About the Author
Tested in the classroom over several years by the American authors, Synthesis has been rewritten for Canadian readers by an experienced law teacher, Margaret E. McCallum, LLB, PhD. Since 1990, Margaret McCallum has taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick.

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Adapted from the popular Legal Writing Handbook, this powerful guide focuses exclusively on the style, grammar, punctuation, and the mechanics of strong legal writing. With the authors’ trademark step-by-step approach, Just Writing, Third Edition enables students to master a skill that will contribute to their success in both law school and practice.

Proven to be effective in the classroom, the third edition features:

• Honed coverage that zeroes in on style, grammar, punctuation, and the mechanics of legal writing in a concise length and format
• Tips and techniques for every step of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading
• The authors’ trademark straightforward, building-block approach
• Clear explanations and crafted examples
• Practice exercises that allow students to use specific skills covered in the text
• Writing for ESL students
• “Quick Tips” about writing integrated throughout the text
• A Glossary of Usage
• A bound-in CD with practice exercises
• A dedicated Teacher’s Manual, with specific teaching suggestions for each chapter in the book
• Additional teaching and testing materials on a Teaching Materials Website, available to adopters

Enquist and Oates’s clarity and finely honed content make this text the perfect complement to any legal writing course. New professors will especially appreciate the ample teaching support that accompanies this book.

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Even as technology made communication quicker, these Coptic leaders ministered through snail mail.

In his rural New Jersey home, Wafik Habib carefully laid out his letter collection before us, now more than a half century old. Handwritten by the late Bishop Samuel to the physician, they represented the bishop’s pastoral care to a nascent diaspora Christian community started in 1950s North America. We could sense the bishop’s presence in the words of comfort and exhortation set to pen and paper.

A few years before our visit to Habib to read his letters from Bishop Samuel, we opened up our own airmail from Egypt. It was a greeting card from Abadir El-Souriany, an elderly monk at the Syrian Monastery of St. Mary. (In the Coptic tradition, bishops are denoted by a single name at ordination and monks are referred to by their first name and the monastery where they serve.)

The card smelled of the Egyptian desert. In it, we found words of blessing.

Abadir had pastored our family in Sudan decades before. Now, newly ordained and assigned to a Coptic Orthodox Church in New Jersey, we received the warm words of Abadir’s letter. They ministered to us as only words from a lifelong pastor to diaspora congregations could.

Of course, sending letters from a distance to churches the Coptic church leaders planted or communities they served follows an apostolic tradition that dates back to the New Testament. Though these letters were addressed to individuals, rather than entire congregations, they achieved the same end: the spread of Christianity, the planting of new churches in new places, and the spiritual growth of these new congregations.

Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Bishop Samuel, Abadir maintained the relationships he built through letter-writing. The Syrian Monastery—located in a region called ...

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