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This book identifies and examines the various rhetorical skills employed by writers--the wealth of subtle and normally invisible "conceptual moves"--in an effort to develop the tools that students need to make these moves themselves. The rhetorical names that it applies reveal and explore the techniques and tactics that writers take pains to hide. The text offers a fresh approach to the methods of development by pointing out the universal necessity and utility of the modes in thinking and writing and demonstrating how these modes work together.
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The title of this book is deliberately ambiguous. Judges write for the court. Their clerks write for the court. But counsel, too, are most effective when they write for the court, that is, when they assist the court in producing judgments that are persuasive, just, and likely to withstand scrutiny on appeal. For this reason, the structural, stylistic, and analytical advice given in this book applies equally to writers on both sides of the bench. The advice applies equally to common law and civil law jurisdictions. 'Writing for the Court' consists of two sections: Practice and Theory. The advice given in Part I is both practical and original, emphasizing the importance of issue-identification...
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A collection of critical reviews of some 140 representative South American feature films, encompassing the most important genres and directors of every era, including the silent era, studio films of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, and the New Latin American Cinema. Entries organized by country discuss a film's genesis, themes, socio-political context, and major credits, and cite key Spanish-language film reference works. Includes title, director, and name indices, two subject indices, and glossaries of Brazilian and film terms. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR