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LAW CSL2601: REALLY BASIC RULES FOR WRITING GOOD PAPERS IN LAW SCHOOL

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In academia, writing is learning. Writing scholarly work provides students with an opportunity for thoughtful exploration and expression within the constrained space of specified word and page limit ... s. Students too often squander that limited space through inattention to structure, substance, and style. This extremely brief guide is intended to help students avoid some frequently observed habits of poor writing. While potentially valuable in other contexts, the “rules” laid out in this document reflect the context in which they arise, namely: concise academic writing submitted to me as a law professor, typically for credit. The examples provided here come from actual papers submitted to me over the years, at different institutions and in different contexts, mostly (but not solely) by students.1 [Show More]

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