New Addition To the LWI Mongraph Series

The Legal Writing Institute, a non-profit organization of over 2800 members that aims to exchange ideas and expand our understanding of legal writing and analysis, has published a third volume in its Monograph Series. This volume collects previously published articles on the theory of teaching legal writing. LWI’s press release explains:

We have included representative foundational articles, which remain critically important for understanding the development of legal writing as a field. The articles are presented chronologically to facilitate the reader’s understanding of the growth and development of the field. We limited ourselves to work with a focus on the theory of teaching novices, leaving many wonderful articles on other aspects, like writing across the curriculum and upper level writing, to future volumes. We hope that this volume will be helpful to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of why we do what we do.

In addition to being informative to reflective or historically-minded teachers, the volume contains several articles of interest to those looking for thoughtful advocacy advice, including:

• Theresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, 40 Sw. L. J. 1089 (1986)
•  Leigh Hunt Greenhaw, “To Say What the Law Is”: Learning the Practice of Legal Rhetoric, 29 Val. U. L. Rev. 861 (1995)
•  Linda Edwards, The Convergence of Analogical and Dialectical Imagination in Legal Discourse, 20 Leg. Stud. Forum 7 (1996)
•  Linda Berger, Applying New Rhetoric to Legal Discourse: the Ebb and Flow of Reader and Writer, Text, and Context, 49 J. Legal Educ. 155 (1999)
•  Andrea McArdle, Negotiating Voice, 12 Clin. L. Rev. 501 (2006)

The full LWI release statement and Table of Contents is available online.