Chapter 12 - Nontraditional Writing Techniques

12.1

Synthesizing Authority

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    INTRODUCTION

    This chapter is not really teaching new skills. It is building on skills you have already developed.

    Synthesizing authority is a very powerful writing technique, not really different from your basic legal analysis. It just expands on the analytical system so that one authority lends its weight to the other.