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Scholarly work in composition theory helps law professors understand and thus more effectively teach law students who are learning a new kind of writing.
- ArticlesI have often wanted a dollar for every time a student quotes a rule, recites the facts from the assignment memo, and then confidently asserts the desired result is "obvious."
- ArticlesThis article presents a pedagogy based on progressing from simple to complex, utilizing various rule structures, and building skills in a logical way.
- ArticlesWhile selecting and designing legal writing problems is often the most difficult part of a legal writing professor's job, it is also one of the most rewarding.
If there is anything more difficult than editing another person's writing, it is editing one's own writing. The "self-graded draft" is one attempt to combat the challenge.
- ArticlesHow can a professor provide academic support to struggling students without an academic support program?
- ArticlesRelatively simple projects can improve legal writing training, raise students' confidence in the writing program and in themselves, and draw positive attention to a law school's legal writing program.
- ArticlesA program achieves a high status not just with tenure but when it receives its fair share of its law school's resources.
- Awards and RemarksWe tell stories about our past experiences and current thinking; we tell stories about our future plans and hopes. In telling these stories, we affirm our connections with one another.