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Substantive Editing Versus Technical Editing: How Law Review Editors Do Their Job, Anne Enquist
Substantive Editing Versus Technical Editing: How Law Review Editors Do Their Job, Anne Enquist
Faculty Articles
Law review editors often have a hard time adjusting to their new role of evaluating and critiquing the work of professors and established legal scholars, resulting in entire editorial boards missing fundamental problems in a particular article. The author provides a solution to this problem by recommending the adoption of two separate phases of editing - a substantive editing phase, which addresses what the article actually communicates, and a technical editing phase, which addresses the form the author uses to communicate. As examples for any law review to follow, the author provides two substantive edits of two different author submissions …
On Writing A Casebook, Myron Moskovitz
On Writing A Casebook, Myron Moskovitz
Seattle University Law Review
In this Article, the author will discuss his theory for writing a casebook, how to organize the book and select cases, and how to get your book published.
Beyond Communication: Writing As A Means Of Learning, Laurel Oates
Beyond Communication: Writing As A Means Of Learning, Laurel Oates
Faculty Articles
In this article, Professor Oates examines the belief that writing facilitates learning from several perspectives. Part I describes the writing-to-learn movement, beginning with James N. Britton's and Janet Emig's assertions that writing is a unique method of learning and ending with John M. Ackerman's claim that writing is no better and, is sometimes worse, than other modes of learning. Building on the evidence described in Part I, Part II discusses writing to learn in light of four theories: behaviorism, Linda S. Flower and John Hayes's models of the composing process, Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia's models of knowledge telling and …