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Rhetoric, Referential Communication, And The Novice Writer, Barbara P. Blumenfeld
Rhetoric, Referential Communication, And The Novice Writer, Barbara P. Blumenfeld
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Classical rhetoric is integral to teaching legal writing, and this essay argues that its use must be enhanced with audience awareness. This is so rhetoric can be successfully applied to teaching and the practice of legal writing.
This essay begins with a very brief overview of the relationship of rhetoric to legal writing and how audience awareness is a key factor in both. This overview leads to a definition of two distinct tasks that must be incorporated into the writing process: first, learning about and understanding specific audiences; second, learning how to implement writing that works for that audience.
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