Sentences with phrase «legal writing discourse»

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First, LRW faculty at our institution believe it is critical for students to become part of the basic discourse community first — to learn how to find and find meaning in domestic legal resources so that they can become versed in the ways United States lawyers analyze legal problems, find solutions, and convey their analysis in writing to others.

As Professors Rideout and Ramsfield note, «The classroom itself must foster dialogue, for if writing is a social activity, then social interaction in the classroom is an important component of students» entry into legal discourse.»

As mentioned above, following discourse conventions is important in legal writing because legal discourse is so highly conventionalized, and those conventions often differ from other forms of professional writing.

For legal writers, who write in the complex discourse of the law, the sum total of those parts can be difficult to master at first.

As a reflection of the changes taking place in the discipline, scholarship on legal writing developed and the discipline began to find a new voice.6 While the discussion continued to include the teaching of legal writing, scholars began pulling from other disciplines; infusing theories and practices from English composition, literature, and education to create a discourse and a unique pedagogy focused specifically on legal writing.7 As we developed our voice, by inviting other ideas and scholarship into the conversation, the discipline created new «rooms» to discuss specific concepts related to legal writing.

Legal discourse is highly - conventionalized, and there is much to learn.246 But after a few years» experience, most legal writers have managed to master the conventions reasonably well and are able to write like a laLegal discourse is highly - conventionalized, and there is much to learn.246 But after a few years» experience, most legal writers have managed to master the conventions reasonably well and are able to write like a lalegal writers have managed to master the conventions reasonably well and are able to write like a lawyer.

Scholars of the discipline expanded from dissecting the practice of teaching legal writing and began to focus on law as rhetoric.11 Progressively, the teaching of legal argument had led to curiosity about rhetorical devices and narrative techniques.12 The importance of plain or accessible language became a key component of effective communication.13 The intersection of legal writing and storytelling emerged as an important area of the scholarly discourse.14 The discipline's character developed and created new and emerging sub-characters within the story.

See L. Sossin's Discourse Poitics: Legal Research and Writing's search for a Pedagogy of its own.

'» 152 This feature is particularly important for ethos in legal discourse because legal writing is so highly conventionalized.153 In order to achieve a credible and authoritative ethos as a legal writer, that writer must employ the conventions and formats that lawyers employ.

Because tutors will be among the first members of the legal discourse community with whom students will interact one - on - one, they are the core of the legal writing center experience.

The shared objective of the legal writing program and the legal writing center is to initiate students into the legal discourse community, and this objective also informs the authority vested in the law school writing center tutor.

The professor - student relationship parallels the senior - junior attorney hierarchy in which young lawyers will be writing.88 The ability to explore ideas outside this hierarchy helps build the confidence of new legal writers, who are exploring an area of legal discourse for the first time.

This case fueled her interest in legal writing and discourse.

Such a complex discourse and its accompanying social contexts require strategies for discovering and mastering its conventions, for writing as a situated member of the legal community.

For example, once students recognize that texting has its own discourse community whose members have certain rhetorical expectations, they are more likely to appreciate that legal writing similarly has its own discourse community whose expectations students will also need to learn.128 As students develop towards becoming experts, they «shift their basis for categorizing problems from relatively surface attributes of problems to more abstract, structural attributes that cue principles relevant to the solution.»

Many legal educators, attorneys, parents, and even students35 themselves view the rise of and reliance on informal writing through clenched teeth, dreading and tracking anecdotally its impact on our ability to write more formally as is required by legal discourse.

Research in other artistic disciplines indicates that when young people recognize they are part of a community, they are generally more willing to take the rules of that community and transfer those rules to other learning.130 Novice legal writers are particularly prone to feeling that their past writing experience is irrelevant to the unique organizational demands and argument constructs of legal discourse; «[t] heir [consequent] discouragement, and the anxiety that often accompanies it, can produce profound self - doubt, and, for more than a few, a kind of writing paralysis.»

See also Lake, supra note 15, at 1026 (noting that professors mean different things when they say IRAC); Adam G. Todd, Exam Writing As Legal Writing: Teaching and Critiquing Law School Examination Discourse, 76 Temp.

Other popular legal technology blogs to consider include: 1) Future Lawyer, written by the always - knowledgable Florida litigator Rick Georges; 2) Technologist, a group blog; 3) Divorce Discourse, where attorney Lee Rosen shares technology and law practice management advice; 4) Law Practice Tips, a blog chock full of wisdom from Jim Calloway, an attorney and the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Management Assistance Program; 5) iPhone JD, where attorney Jeff Richardson covers all things Apple - related, including iPhones and iPads; 6) Ride the Lightening, which covers a variety of interesting legal technology issues and is authored by lawyer Sharon Nelson, who offers her opinion on the effect of legal technology on the practice of law; and 7) the MyCase blog, where I regularly write about a host of legal tech issues.