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The following quote is from Peter Gross’s article, “On law School Training in Analytical Skill,” which was published more than 30 years ago:

“Legal Writing often is viewed as a separable and peripheral subject—one identified with a knowledge of legal materials and of composition.  But in fact, “[the process of legal] writing is basically 85 percent analysis and 15 percent composition; and “criticism of law student writing] . . . generally relates as much to defects in thinking as to faults in expression”  Legal writing is no less than the principal  medium for the expression of, and hence for practice in, legal analysis   25 J. Legal Educ. 261 (1972-73).

- Professor Laurel Oates, Seattle University

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