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Exam Writing As Legal Writing: Teaching And Critiquing Law School Examination Discourse, Adam Todd
Exam Writing As Legal Writing: Teaching And Critiquing Law School Examination Discourse, Adam Todd
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This article adds to the growing body of scholarship on legal writing and its role in the legal academy. It addresses an area of legal discourse that is of importance to law students, the legal academy and the bar admissions process, yet has been neglected in legal scholarship. The article is a call for legal writing faculty members and other legal writing specialists to become more involved in the process of teaching about and critiquing the discourse involved in traditional end-of-semester doctrinal law school exams. This article suggests how law school legal writing programs, by deliberately teaching about exam writing, …