Theprocessofdevelopinganewarea'slanguageactuallydevelopsitssubstance.

First,theacademymustaddressstatusissuessurroundinglegalwritingthathaveexacerbateddelayinthe
processofdevelopingacommonvocabulary.Next,tosolvethecommunicationproblemthatlegalwriting
jargoncreates,scholarsmuststudythestateofthelanguageusedtoteachlegalwritingnow.Itiscriticalto
knowhowthosecreatinganewlegal writinglanguagelegalwritingprofessorsandtheirstudentstalk
about writing. The legal community must concomitantly identify how judges and lawyers talk about
writing.Ifwebegintounderstandhowlegalprofessionalsusejargondifferently,wecanseehowweneed
toclarifyourspeech.Additionally,legalwritingprofessionalsshouldmakeconsidereddecisionswhen
expandinglegalwritingvocabulary,creatingnewtermsorneologismspurposefullyandnotmerelyforthe
sakeofexpansion.Finally,afterstudyingtheemerginglegalwritinglanguage,legalwritingprofessionals
canbeginteachingtheentirelegalcommunitythevocabularyneededtotalkaboutlegalwritingwitheach
otherascolleagues,teachers,andemployers.
Lawyeringisacraftatthecenterofwhichiscommunication.
Creatingjargonisessentialtothedevelopmentofthefield'ssubstance.
NewRhetoricviewslanguageasconstitutive:thatis,thewritingprocessdoesnotsimplyrevealthought.It
makesthought.Inotherwords,inNewRhetorictheory,writingisthinkingadifferentwayofthinking.
aseparatedisciplinebeforethe1980s
The clinical educationmovement becamemore prevalent inthe1970sand1980s,bringingskillsand
experientialtraining.4Lawschoolclinicsandexternshipsofferedstudentstheopportunitytopracticelaw
undersupervisionwhilestillinlawschool.Asstudentsrepresentedactualclients,whetherinthelaw
school'sclinicorinlocallawoffices,theynecessarilydraftedlegalmemoranda,pleadings,motions,and
evenappellatebriefsthatwerenotjustforlearningpurposes,butactuallyfiledincourts.Thisexperience
mayhavereinforcedlawfaculties'perceptionsthatstudentsneededtostudylegalwritingmoreformally
priortograduation.
Inthe1980s,thenatureoflawpracticechanged,exhibitinganewemphasisonbusinesspracticesandthe
bottomline."
Inresponsetostudents'poorentryskillsandthedemandsofthelegalmarket,between1985and1990,a
trenddevelopedwheremanylawschoolsbeganofferingmoresubstantiallegalwritingprograms.4
Instructioninwritingprogramsduringthisearlyperiodgenerallyfollowedwhatcompositiontheoristshave
labeled"thecurrenttraditionalmodel"ora"formalist"approach.4'Formalisminlegalwritingemphasizes
theproduct,especiallytheformalfeaturesofvariousdocumentsthatlawyersproduce.42Formalismalso
emphasizesclarityandaccuracy
"Instrumental writing" because it views writing as simply a tool for expressing thought, not forming
thought
TheattempttoarticulateastepbystepguidetoanalyticalorganizationfosteredthecreationofIRAC,and
itsvariations.
Professor Linda Edwards, for example, uses the term "umbrella section" to describe an introductory
paragraph that states a thesis, Professor Sue Liemer uses the term "thesis section" to describe the
introductoryparagraph,55andProfessorsNancyL.SchultzandLouisJ.Sirico,Jr.calltheintroductory
paragrapha"roadmapparagraph."

Duringthelate1960swithanexplosionoftheoryinEnglishdepartmentsacrossthecountry,Rhetoric,and
changesinthinkingaboutrhetoric,haveinfluencedlegalwritingteachingandlegalwriting'semerging
language
"Rhetoric"todaymayrefertoclassicalrhetorictheartandstrategiesofpersuasionbasedontheworkof
ancientGreeks.Inthelateeighteenthandearlynineteenthcenturies,inventionreceivedlittleattentionfrom
rhetoricians,whosawtherhetoricalfunctionasreportingobjectively,ratherthaninterpreting."Current
traditionalparadigm"
Bythemidtwentiethcentury,however,theviewchanged.Inthemodernsense,"rhetoric"mayalsoreferto
"theuseofsymbolstoconstructalternativemeaningframes.
1960s, however, HansGeorg Gadamer introduced a new view of hermeneutics, which abandoned the
searchforobjectivemeaninginfavorofinterpretationthatwascontextualizedtotheinteractionbetweena
particularreaderandthetext.
Duringthewritingprocess,"readingandwritingcompriseaseriesoftransactionsbetweenreaderand
writer,realityandlanguage,priortextsandthistext,theindividualandthecontext."
NewRhetoricwasonlythefirstinaseriesofnewtheoriesdevelopedincompositionstudiesduringthelast
thirtyyears,butlegalwritingscholarshipgenerallyusestheterm"NewRhetoric"todelineatethemall.
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