Writing and Rhetoric 3326: Legal Writing is an introduction to legal analysis and writing. It is offered at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, a Holy Cross liberal arts university of approximately 4,300 students, mostly undergraduates. This course focuses on applied rhetoric, and is designed to give undergraduate students experience in writing clear, effective plain-language legal documents. The course offers a range of realistic legal writing problems, but does not presume any specialized legal knowledge. The writing assignments will help students to improve their writing and editing skills and to refine their abilities to analyze and develop arguments within a legal context.