TeachingLaw.com
Diana Donahoe
Description:
Legal Research and Writing goes digital! TeachingLaw.com is an electronic legal research and writing coursebook that provides professors and students with a more interactive and collaborative learning environment. Now students can read, research, and write simultaneously and digest material more thoroughly and efficiently. TeachingLaw.com integrates all course materials into one, convenient location and offers a hands-on approach to learning legal research and writing strategies, analysis, sources, documents, editing and citation.
The coursebook is organized into seven sections:
- Research Sources: Provides text about and guided searches of primary authority and secondary sources.
- Research Strategies: Examines various researching strategies—ranging from general strategies to specific strategies for each source—via annotated samples, demonstrations, and video testimonials.
- Legal Documents: Covers a variety of legal documents—including memos, briefs, pleadings and motions, client letters, and scholarly writing—via interactive annotated samples, slide shows, quizzes, and self-assessments.
- Legal Analysis: Provides a number of methods—such as point/counterpoint arguments—for analyzing the law
- Writing & Rewriting: Via text, testimonials, animations, and self-assessments, immerses students in the writing process and addresses techniques for writing persuasively.
- Edit & Cite: Offers a hands-on approach to editing, grammar, and citation strategies with quizzes and self-assessments.
- Case Files & Assignments: A completely customizable courseware section, provides course materials and allows professors to manipulate folders and populate them with their own material—including video, pictures, links, and other multimedia—tailored to the needs of their specific courses. Here, professors post assignments that students download, complete, and turn back in via upload. The professor can access the student assignments through the reporting function and can email the students, either individually or as an entire class.
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