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A Tenant’S Fate In The Mountain State: What State Ex Rel Morrisey V. Copper Beech Townhome Communities Means For Tenants As Consumers, Emily Ann Cramer

West Virginia Law Review

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Menulis Di Jurnal Hukum: Gagasan, Struktur, Dan Gaya, Andri Gunawan Wibisana

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

Writing articles in a law review is different from writing an opinion in a newspaper or articles in other types of journals. Indonesian authors often fail to indicate the problems to be discussed, the proposed thesis statement or idea (claim), and the structure of the article. They also write too descriptive and employ very limited references. This paper aims to support the authors to find out important aspects in formulating a good legal article. For this reason, this paper explains that an article must contain the claim, and be novel, non-obvious, and useful. This paper also explains the importance of …

Contrastive Analysis And Contrastive Rhetoric In The Legal Writing Classroom, Diane B. Kraft

New Mexico Law Review

In the past several decades, the number of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) speakers attending law schools as part of J.D. and LL.M. programs has increased dramatically. While some of these students are fluent in English, many are not yet able to read, write, and speak English, or understand spoken English, at the advanced level required for successful graduate work in law. The language problems are sometimes grammatical, sometimes cultural, and often both. For those students who are required to complete a writing course as part of their graduate program, deficiencies in writing ability can be a difficult obstacle to overcome. For the …

Finding Balance: Using Employment Law Problems To Achieve Multiple Learning Goals In Persuasive Legal Writing, Rosa Castello

Faculty Publications

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Legal Writing professors, like myself, face the same challenge each new semester: how can I effectively and efficiently help students learn one of the most important skills for a practicing lawyer? And one large hurdle in this quest to make our students good legal writers is creating a trial motion or appellate brief problem that helps them develop the particular skills required for persuasive legal writing. The act of creating the problem is sometimes like tightrope walking̶ finding just the right balance of facts and law to challenge students and help develop and enhance vital research, analytical, organizational, writing, …

Reporting Certainty, James Macleod

Faculty Scholarship

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