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Peer reviewedWiethoff, William E. – Southern Communication Journal, 1991
Examines the close formal relationship between the Renaissance rhetoric of letter-writing and the common law system of "writs." Traces a forensic urge reflected in structural and stylistic preferences of two letter-writing exemplars. Compares the graphic form of instructional aids in both systems to illustrate methods for examining their…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Legal Education (Professions)
