Description
By working with numerous illustrations in the context of substantive law, students learn to:
- Fill the gap between what the professor refers to as learning to "think like a lawyer" and the actual means for doing so.
- Create a successful path from note-taking—to outlining—to exam writing.
- Identify the basic skills that exams seek to test and the precise manner in which they are tested.
- Become familiar with the general types of law school exams through examples and detailed analyses of sample answers.
- Use the language of the law in the writing of issues, statements of the rule, and analysis of the facts.
- Draw appropriate inferences from the facts.
- Improve close reading skills as well as writing skills.
- Be pro-active by taking formative assessments in a variety of subject areas and formats.
- Simulate exam conditions by writing exams under timed conditions.
- Target assessments according to identified learning objectives.
- Self-assess by following detailed grading rubrics.
- Use formative assessment to improve learning through identified feedback mechanisms.
- Draw appropriate inferences from the facts.
- Organize their thoughts to write an organized analysis.
- Develop a facility with adapting the "IRAC" structure of legal analysis to answer multiple-choice questions, write essay answers, and address varying performance test tasks.
Book Information
ISBN 9781634592253
Author Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus
Format Paperback
Page Count 354
Imprint West Academic Press
Publisher West Academic Publishing