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Bundle: Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer, Seventh Edition and Connected Quizzing

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Authors
  • Anne Enquist
  • Laurel Currie Oates
  • Jeremy Francis
  • Amanda Maus Stephen
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Publication Date
2026-02-01
Edition
Seventh Edition
Description

Bundle: Print + eBook + Learning Assessment - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9798894103389 as well as Connected Quizzing, ISBN 9781543814491.

Bundle: eBook + Learning Assessment - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798894103396 as well as Connected Quizzing, ISBN 9781543814491.

Just Writing: Grammar, Punctuation, and Style for the Legal Writer, Seventh Edition, features the authors’ famously effective step-by-step approach to writing and editing legal documents effectively. With numerous examples, including briefs and memos, Just Writing walks students through the process of drafting and revising legal writing to make the argument and language as correct and clear as possible. This text also discusses the expectations of legal writing and argument in American and other cultures, as well as a chapter devoted to helping ESL students develop their writing skills.


Bundle also includes Connected Quizzing. Delivered through CasebookConnect.com, Connected Quizzing is an easy-to-use formative assessment tool that tests law students’ understanding and provides timely feedback to improve learning outcomes. Connected Quizzing requires a Professor Course Code to access the quizzes.


 

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About the authors
Anne M. Enquist

Professor Enquist has been a member of the legal writing faculty and the Writing Advisor at Seattle University School of Law since 1980. She serves as the Director of Seattle University's nationally ranked legal writing program. As the Writing Advisor, she works one-on-one with law students on their legal writing. She is the co-author of five books and the author of numerous articles about legal writing. She has served on the national Board of Directors for the Legal Writing Institute, and in 2007, she received the American Association of Law Schools Legal Writing Section Award. In 2014, she received the William Burton Award for Legal Writing Education. Her research and scholarly interests concern all areas of legal writing, particularly diagnosing student writing ability, critiquing law students' writing, and writing issues that affect ESL law students.

Laurel Currie Oates

Laurel Currie Oates is a professor of law at Seattle University School of Law and has been the director of Seattle University’s Legal Writing Program since 1984. With Professor Anne Enquist, Professor Oates has authored five books on legal writing: The Legal Writing Handbook, which is in its fifth edition, and Just Research, Just Memos, Just Briefs, and Just Writing, which are in the fourth edition. Professor Oates has also authored numerous law review articles, including articles on legal reading, writing to learn, the transfer of learning, and the outsourcing of legal work.

Professor Oates is also one of the co-founders of both the Legal Writing Institute and APPEAL, an organization that provides opportunities for academics in Africa and the United States to share ideas about helping students, lawyers, advocates, and judges improve their writing. During the last five years, Professor Oates has worked in Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Afghanistan, and India, providing workshops on effective writing.

In June 2007, Professor Oates received the Burton Award for Outstanding Contributions to Legal Writing Education at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and this year she received the Marjorie Rombauer award from the Association of Legal Writing Directors.

Jeremy Francis
Michigan State University

Professor Jeremy Francis is Clinical Professor of Law and Writing Specialist at Michigan State University College of Law. He works in tandem with MSU Law's Research, Writing & Analysis instructors to reinforce first-year students' grammar and punctuation skills and to teach students the conventions of legal style. His workshops, optional seminars, and one-on-one instruction sessions help prepare students to pass a required proficiency test by the end of their first year.

Professor Francis taught prospective English teachers through Michigan State University's Teacher Education and English departments before joining the MSU College of Law in 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Critical Studies in the Teaching of English from MSU in 2007 and an M.A. in Education from the University of Denver in 2003.

Professor Francis won the Legal Writing Institute's Deborah Hecht Memorial Writing Contest Award in 2010 for his article "Finding Your Voice While Learning to Dance" and again in 2014 for his article "The Silent Scream: How Soon Can Students Let Us Know They Are Struggling?" The award is given every other year to the legal writing specialist who publishes the best article or essay on the topics of effectiveness, clarity, and writing style.

Amanda Maus Stephen

Professor Stephen is an Assistant Teaching Professor at her alma mater, the University of Washington School of Law, where she teaches Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing to first-year law students. After graduating with honors in 2010, she clerked for several judges on the Washington State Court of Appeals. She also managed a solo legal practice, focusing on appellate law and providing freelance legal research and writing services for attorneys.

In 2019, Professor Stephen joined Seattle University School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering Skills, a position she held until joining the University of Washington faculty in 2022. She is an active member of the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of American Law Schools’ Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research Section. A frequent presenter at regional and national legal writing conferences, her scholarship includes articles and presentations on bias in legal writing, generative artificial intelligence, and promoting mindfulness in the classroom.
Product Information
Edition
Seventh Edition
Publication date
2026-02-01
Copyright Year
2026
Bundle: Print + eBook + Learning Assessment
9798899647550
Bundle: eBook + Learning Assessment
9798899647543
Subject
Legal Writing
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