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Legal Communication Syllabus

This syllabus outlines a Legal Communication course for the 1st semester of the DVOREF College of Law's AY 2017-2018. The course aims to improve students' ability to communicate legal ideas and principles clearly in English through a review of writing mechanics. Students will learn how to construct, present, and critically analyze arguments. By the end of the semester, students are expected to understand, analyze, and present Philippine legal materials succinctly and with confidence, and participate actively in classroom discussions. The course covers topics like grammar, punctuation, legal citation, elements of effective writing, and legal writing style.

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Legal Communication Syllabus

This syllabus outlines a Legal Communication course for the 1st semester of the DVOREF College of Law's AY 2017-2018. The course aims to improve students' ability to communicate legal ideas and principles clearly in English through a review of writing mechanics. Students will learn how to construct, present, and critically analyze arguments. By the end of the semester, students are expected to understand, analyze, and present Philippine legal materials succinctly and with confidence, and participate actively in classroom discussions. The course covers topics like grammar, punctuation, legal citation, elements of effective writing, and legal writing style.

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DVOREF College of Law

1st Semester, AY 2017-2018


SYLLABUS

Title: Legal Communication


Lecturer: Atty. Marie Ronette Salve E. Barreda
Schedule:

Course Description:
The course is a review of writing mechanics to improve students’ ability to communicate ideas
and legal principles clearly and precisely in the English language. The course will also focus on
the student’s ability to clearly construct, present and critically analyze arguments.

At the end of the semester, the student is expected to understand, analyze and present Philippine
legal materials succinctly and confidently, and learn to be an active participant in the discussions
in the classroom.

Course Outline:
I. Introduction to the State of Legal Education
-The State of Legal Education Revisited by Mariano F. Magsalin, Jr.
II. Diagnosing Challenges and Setting Goals

- Diagnostic test in writing, grammar, spelling, and mechanics to identify individual


problem areas and targeted goals

III. Grammar Review and Usage


a. Present, Past and Future Participle
b. Auxiliary Verb: Do, Does, Did
c. Subject-Verb Agreement
d. Preposition
e. Parallelism
f. Active and Passive Voice
IV. Sentence Writing
a. Fragments and complete sentences
b. Types of Sentences: Simple, Compound, Complex
c. Run-on sentences and Comma splices
d. Connecting sentences through transitions
V. How to Answer Questions
a. Issue Spotting
b. ILAC / Four- paragraph Rule
c. Useful Introductory Lines
* Writing Exercises

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V. Punctuations
VI. Capitalization, Italics, Boldface, Underscoring
VII. Legal Citation
VIII. Elements of Effective Writing: Writing Clearly
a. Simplicity
b. Clarity
c. Persuasiveness

IX. Writing Legalese

X. Writing Style: Pointers on Style by retired Justice Camilo D. Quiason


a. Words
b. Phrases and Clauses
c. Sentences

“The language of the law must bot be foreing to the ears of those who are to obey it.”
-Judge Learned Hand

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