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9781454863335 English 1454863331 A long-time best-selling comprehensive text for basic legal research, The Process of Legal Research: Practices and Resources, 9E melds a rich discussion of legal authorities with a presentation of strategic processes for researching using the vast array of resources now available to the legal researcher. With readability in mind, The Process of Legal Research is written to engage various learners through streamlined text, graphics, in-text scenarios that draw on first-year topics, sample documents, and self-assessment questions. Covering sources from dictionaries to international and tribal law, and presenting and repeatedly demonstrating ten practices that distinguish skilled researchers, the book zeroes in on current, credible, cost-efficient options for each type of legal authority. To maximize students comprehension, the chapters conclude with a research scenario paired with questions for guided practice as well as a theoretical question to prompt class discussion., Long a favorite among students, The Process of Legal Research: Practices and Resources, Ninth Edition combines instruction, visual aids, examples, and sample documents with well-crafted assessments that immerse students in the process of legal research. It lays out and demonstrates the ten practices that set apart skilled legal researchers. It covers basic to advanced sources and zeroes in on the credible, cost-efficient resources used by today's lawyers. The Process of Legal Research: Practices and Resources features: A thorough introduction to legal materials, including their modes of creation and relationships to each other and the legal resources in which these materials are published, A thorough discussion of the processes of researching in legal resources, featuring the practices used by skilled legal researchers, A wealth of visual aids, descriptions of research projects, and sample documents to illuminate the processes, A consistent emphasis on selecting the appropriate research approach for the client's context, including a mix of free, low-cost, and high-end online resources, Three different types of assessments to solidify learning A timely revision that focuses on student learning and current research practices, the Ninth Edition features: A new chapter discussing ten practices of skilled researchers, including choosing resources with care, piggy-backing on other's work, and managing your information file - which echo through remaining chapters, "Test Your Knowledge" questions (with answers provided) to test acquisition of key concepts, "Put It into Practice" feature, which guides the reader through a research project from start to finish, Reflection of dramatic shifts in resources in recent years, especially more focus on free web resources and low-cost commercial resources, Coverage of resources for each type of authority based on likelihood of use in practice, as established in recent studies of actual research practices among attorneys, Streamlined text Book jacket.
9781454863335 English 1454863331 A long-time best-selling comprehensive text for basic legal research, The Process of Legal Research: Practices and Resources, 9E melds a rich discussion of legal authorities with a presentation of strategic processes for researching using the vast array of resources now available to the legal researcher. With readability in mind, The Process of Legal Research is written to engage various learners through streamlined text, graphics, in-text scenarios that draw on first-year topics, sample documents, and self-assessment questions. Covering sources from dictionaries to international and tribal law, and presenting and repeatedly demonstrating ten practices that distinguish skilled researchers, the book zeroes in on current, credible, cost-efficient options for each type of legal authority. To maximize students comprehension, the chapters conclude with a research scenario paired with questions for guided practice as well as a theoretical question to prompt class discussion., Long a favorite among students, The Process of Legal Research: Practices and Resources, Ninth Edition combines instruction, visual aids, examples, and sample documents with well-crafted assessments that immerse students in the process of legal research. It lays out and demonstrates the ten practices that set apart skilled legal researchers. It covers basic to advanced sources and zeroes in on the credible, cost-efficient resources used by today's lawyers. The Process of Legal Research: Practices and Resources features: A thorough introduction to legal materials, including their modes of creation and relationships to each other and the legal resources in which these materials are published, A thorough discussion of the processes of researching in legal resources, featuring the practices used by skilled legal researchers, A wealth of visual aids, descriptions of research projects, and sample documents to illuminate the processes, A consistent emphasis on selecting the appropriate research approach for the client's context, including a mix of free, low-cost, and high-end online resources, Three different types of assessments to solidify learning A timely revision that focuses on student learning and current research practices, the Ninth Edition features: A new chapter discussing ten practices of skilled researchers, including choosing resources with care, piggy-backing on other's work, and managing your information file - which echo through remaining chapters, "Test Your Knowledge" questions (with answers provided) to test acquisition of key concepts, "Put It into Practice" feature, which guides the reader through a research project from start to finish, Reflection of dramatic shifts in resources in recent years, especially more focus on free web resources and low-cost commercial resources, Coverage of resources for each type of authority based on likelihood of use in practice, as established in recent studies of actual research practices among attorneys, Streamlined text Book jacket.