Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication, Fifth EditionSynthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication employs a successful step by step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a clients situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a variety of ways, the text incorporates numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners.