Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research

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Session Type: Section Programs

Session Capacity: 270

Hotel: Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel

Room: Empire West

Floor: Second Floor

To enhance students’ ability to successfully complete their upper-level scholarly writing requirement, they may need additional instruction in scholarly writing. This session provides practical teaching tips for professors of seminar courses and faculty advisors of student journals. One panelist will share her experience teaching a scholarly writing seminar for law review students. She seeks to create a collaborative student-run environment for critical academic writing. Another panelist will discuss how teachers can intervene in the prewriting stages of topic and thesis development to ensure the final paper is more than just a research paper. She will also briefly discuss writing constructive comments. Throughout the process of formulating and writing a paper, students may benefit from on-demand learning, such as through videotaped lectures. Two panelists will address their experience creating videotaped lectures on topic/thesis selection and research, developing an outline, and proper attribution via citation and footnoting. This type of resource can add an instructional and writing-specific component to a seminar course more economically and efficiently than a live-instruction model. The ABA standards and faculty-supervision requirement are important related topics.