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The Other Side Of The Story: Using Graphic Organizers As Cognitive Learning Tools To Teach Students To Construct Effective Counter-Analysis (Forthcoming 2010), Lisa T. Mcelroy, Christine N. Coughlin
The Other Side Of The Story: Using Graphic Organizers As Cognitive Learning Tools To Teach Students To Construct Effective Counter-Analysis (Forthcoming 2010), Lisa T. Mcelroy, Christine N. Coughlin
Christine Nero Coughlin
In law school, it is critical for students to look at issues from both sides, whether in responding to a law school exam hypothetical or in writing predictive memorandum assignments. In teaching students to engage in thoughtful legal analysis, therefore, professors should provide strategies to help students address counter-analysis as a critical component of the analysis. Developing a method for effectively teaching counter-analysis is important because good lawyering requires complex analysis that recognizes the subtleties of the situation being analyzed.
This article begins by defining counter-analysis generally and using social science and educational psychology theory to explain why the process …