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Ulep's Basic Legal Writing offers guidance to law students on improving their legal writing skills. It focuses on mastering language and common grammar failures. The book serves as a useful tool for writing legal documents like pleadings, memoranda, and briefs. It defines important grammatical terms and parts of speech. It also discusses punctuation, words that are often confused, and legal citations based on the Philippine Manual of Legal Citations. The book provides guidance on correctly citing various legal sources like cases, statutes, bills, treaties, and administrative rules.

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ULEP Summary

Ulep's Basic Legal Writing offers guidance to law students on improving their legal writing skills. It focuses on mastering language and common grammar failures. The book serves as a useful tool for writing legal documents like pleadings, memoranda, and briefs. It defines important grammatical terms and parts of speech. It also discusses punctuation, words that are often confused, and legal citations based on the Philippine Manual of Legal Citations. The book provides guidance on correctly citing various legal sources like cases, statutes, bills, treaties, and administrative rules.

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Ulep’s Basic Legal Writing offers law students a clear guidance and reference in polishing their

skills in the art writing. The first part focuses on how to master the language, both written and
oral, providing sufficient examples and establishing common causes of failures in grammar in
connection to law school and bar examinations. The book serves as a useful tool in writing
pleadings, memoranda, and briefs at the start for law students or even practicing lawyer.
In the book’s introduction, Ulep’s lays down the root of difficulty in writing and makes stark
observations on erroneous grammar of law students which he compiled.
On the next chapter, he defines grammar and important grammatical terms to include the
purpose of having a good grammar, characteristics of grammar and the difference of grammar
from lexicology. Various parts of speech were discussed in the book such as the Noun as the
name of a person, place, animal, things, persons, objects or idea. Pronoun, a substitute for a
noun. Verb, which espresses action or state of being and indicates time of action or being;
including auxiliary verbs which are helping verbs that are added to the basic verb to change
verb tenses and to add specific shades of meaning.
Adjectives, which modify and describe nouns or pronouns and specify size, color, number;
Adverbs, words that describe or expand the meaning of verbs, adjective and other adverbs;
Prepositions – show how a noun or pronoun us related to another word in a sentence; and
Conjunction and Interjection which join words, phrases or clauses; and independently
expresses feeling or strong emotions, respectively.
In the succeeding chapter, Ulep discusses the part of a sentence and some basic point in
grammar. This cover the use of the various parts of speech in the preceding chapter, verbs that
are often confused, tenses – past, present, subjunctive, infinitive, articles, common mistakes on
the use of wrong preposition, rules and examples of coordinating or correlative conjunctions,
capitalization, alongside with myriad of examples.
In Chapter III, Ulep focuses on the Correct Use of punctuation, providing a brief backgrounded
on the same and its four (4) general purposes, i.e., to terminate, to introduce, to enclose, and to
separate. He made lectures on the different kinds of punctuation marks – accent mark, asterisk,
bar, brace, brackets, period, comma, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation point,
apostrophe, quotation marks, the dash, parentheses, ellipses dots, hyphenation and
compounds, along with the use of italics.
In the subsequent chapter, the book’s discussion centers on the words and expressions often
confused and misused. He includes catalogue of some troublesome words in the book for the
information and guidance of all legal writers.
For Part V on legal citations, Ulep made reference to the Fifth Revised Edition of the Philippine
Manual of Legal Citations. As a general rule, he said that we are to cite cases by giving the
surname of the parties, volume, the title and page of reports, and the year of promulgation in
parenthesis. Abbreviate versus as v. when used in the text, underscore the title of the case and
place the source or citation in the footnote.
As exceptions, cite Islamic and Chinese names in full. We also have to cite compound names in
full and cite names of corporations, associations, business firms and partnership in full. Words
forming part of such names may be abbreviated, except first word.
Likewise, alternative names given for any party, such as trade name under which the party
conducts business shall be omitted.
When citing involving the Government of the Philippines and criminal cases, it must be cites as
Government v. _______; or Republic v. ________.
Where the person is named in his official capacity, give the name of the person only; or where
the office is named, give the complete name of the office. In citing involving municipality, always
cite the complete name of Municipality or City.
Finally, cite cases names beginning with procedural terms like Ex parte, Ex rel and In re as they
appear in the decisions. Use In re instead of In the Matter of.
Moving on to case reports, when the decision is already found in the officially published
Philippine Reports, indicate only the Philippine Reports citation. Do not make a parallel citation
with an unofficial citation.
Now, in citing Statutory materials, the Constitution is cited by reference to article, section and
paragraph. When the Constitution is no longer in force, put the year in parenthesis. In citing
Session laws, on the other hand, citation of sources is not required but may be added.
In codes, as a general rule, cite the name of the particular code, article number or section
number without any indication of date. But when the code is no longer in force of has been
subsequently revised, put the year of effectivity in parenthesis.
In citing Bills, resolutions or committee reports, cite first the House where the same originated,
serial report number, the Congress, sessions and year in parenthesis. For committee reports,
give the name of the committee.
For treaties and International agreements, cite the name of the agreement and the exact date of
signature by the Philippines. The effectivity date or date of entry into force may be given
parenthetically at the end of the citation.
On the other hand, rules and regulations promulgated by administrative agencies are cited by
name of agency together with the designation employed in the rules, serial number, and year of
promulgation in parenthesis.
In ordinances, cite provincial and city ordinances in the following manner: Name of the
municipal or provincial unit, serial number of ordinance, and date of adoption; while Revised
Rules of Court is cites as a code. When the rules are no longer in force add year of effectivity in
parenthesis.

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