Legal Research and Writing
Third Edition
Diana R. Donahoe, Georgetown University

A web-based interactive, electronic, customizable coursebook, as well as a classroom management system, for the standard first-year Legal Research & Writing course.

Book Features:

• Designed to engage the student both inside and outside of the classroom, using multimedia, animation, annotated samples, and interactivity to cover research, writing, grammar, and citation.
• Provides a discovery-based, active learning environment where the student reads, researches, and writes simultaneously and digests material more thoroughly and effectively.
• As an electronic book, allows the teacher to replace traditional “lectures” with more interactive and collaborative teaching methods that complement the teacher’s own style and expertise, and enhance the teacher’s ability to communicate.
• As a classroom management system, creates a paperless classroom that allows the teacher to upload projects and course materials into files folders from which the student downloads the projects and uploads the finished, automatically time-stamped assignments.
• Merges a sophisticated pedagogical design with content created by the same author.
• A print companion to the website which allows reading of the longer sections offline. Available in print format to top price adopters, and to all users as a PDF download from the site.

New to the Third Edition:

• Separately adoptable Writing and Research modules
• Extensive e-book content revisions and additions throughout, including new text, exercises, quizzes, and checklists
• Improved navigation/menus
• Anonymous assignment posting
• Ability to email attachments
• Cloning, sharing, and copying of workspaces

Organization

Organized into seven sections:

1. Research Sources: Provides text about and guided searches of primary authority and secondary sources.
2. Research Strategies: Examines various researching strategies—ranging from general strategies to specific strategies for each source—via annotated samples, demonstrations, and video testimonials.
3. Legal Documents: Covers a variety of legal documents—including memos, briefs, pleadings and motions, client letters, and scholarly writing—via interactive annotated samples, slide shows, quizzes, and self-assessments.
4. Legal Analysis: Provides a number of methods—such as point/counterpoint arguments—for analyzing the law
5. Writing & Rewriting: Via text, testimonials, animations, and self-assessments, immerses students in the writing process and addresses techniques for writing persuasively.
6. Editing & Citation: Offers a hands-on approach to editing, grammar, and citation strategies with quizzes and self-assessments.
7. Case Files & Assignments: A completely customizable courseware section, provides course materials and allows the teacher to manipulate folders and populate them with their own material—including video, pictures, links, and other multimedia—tailored to the needs of their specific courses. Here, the teacher posts assignments that the students download, complete, and upload. The teacher can access the student assignments through the reporting function and can email the students, either individually or as an entire class.