Persuasive legal analysis[edit]The persuasive document, a motion or a brief, attempts to persuade a deciding authority to favorably decide the dispute for the author's client. Motions and briefs are usually submitted to judges, but also to mediators, arbitrators, and others. In addition a persuasive letter may attempt to persuade the dispute's opposing party.Persuasive writingis the most rhetorically stylized. So although a brief states the legal issues, describes authorities, and applies authorities to the questionas does a memorandumthe brief's application portion is framed as an argument. The author argues for one approach to resolving the legal matter and does not present a neutral analysis.