This article examines the specific features of scientific legal texts and proposes a step-by-step system for working with a primary scientific text to create secondary scientific texts within the framework of dissertation research.
academic legal writing; scholarly legal discourse; secondary academic texts; text transformation methodology; language training for law enforcement; professional development for police educators
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