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From truth to technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what philip gaines calls advocacy advice texts manuals handbooks and other how to guides written by lawyers for lawyers both practicing and aspiring to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy in these texts advice authors share principles strategies and techniques for persuading . The book takes the reader through a discursive history of the relation between technique and metavalues as presented in advocacy advice beginning with a thematic analysis of the first texts published in the anglo american tradition in the early seventeenth century through treatises written during seasons of radical change in the profession in . From truth to technique at trial a discursive history of advocacy advice texts philip gaines oxford studies in language and law provides a rare opportunity to trace the development of a professional discursive genre over a period of time more 400 years organizes textual representations into thematic categories over time. From truth to technique at trial addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what philip gaines calls advocacy advice texts manuals handbooks and other how to guides written by lawyers for lawyers both practicing and aspiring to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy. From truth to technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what philip gaines calls advocacy advice texts manuals handbooks and other how to guides written by lawyers for lawyers both practicing and aspiring to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy