Effective Litigative Writing
| Autor: | Charles J. Moxley |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
Communication
05 social sciences 050301 education Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology General Business Management and Accounting Structuring Syntax (logic) Epistemology Power (social and political) 020204 information systems Law 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering The Symbolic Sociology Affect (linguistics) Business and International Management 0503 education Formal requirements |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 10:143-166 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4574 1050-6519 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1050651996010002002 |
| Popis: | This review of the relationship of law and art in the litigative context explores ways in which the methodologies of the novelist and other artists can be invoked by the lawyer in structuring and developing a case and presenting it to a court. To the litigators who transcend the form books and stereotypes and see their cases with a fresh eye, neither the law nor the facts are fixed in stone but rather created to meet the deepest realities of the case within the context of our most fundamental values and beliefs. Litigators, by the way they define and project the issues, can affect, even determine, what law and facts are legally relevant and dispositive. They must devise and write the story that threads the client's way out of the labyrinth. Mastery of the formal requirements of litigative writing is only a necessary first step. Freewriting; Hemingwayesque choice of words and syntax; harnessing the symbolic, often hidden, power of language; achieving the dramatic potential of case presentation—all these and more from the creative artist's repertoire empower litigators to win their cases. Resort is made not only to the applicable statutory, regulatory, and case law but also to the processes of the like of Cezanne, Conrad, Hemingway, Tolstoy, Joyce, Aristotle, and Faulkner. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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