UWP 104B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Amicus Curiae, Abbreviation, Legal Writing
13 Mar 2017
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A short guide to writing about law: chapter 6- using sources. Legal writing: the skill of making legal claims and supporting them with authority. Citation: a references to an external source (makes your writing stronger) Statistical evidence, scientific observations made in a lab, details from literary text. If you use evidence in your writing, you must cite it. To gain authority or strength of those sources for yourself- empower your ethos as a writer. Give credit to other whose work you are borrowing. Provide a research trail for your readers to follow. Gain authority: by pointing to an established opinion when you make an assertion, your writing gains the authority of that opinion/study/expert/source. Think of your sources as a type of precedent. Plagiarism: using another person"s original work and claiming it as one"s own. You must give credit for ideas that are not yours, no matter whose words you use.
