Scholarly writing for law students
Subtitle: Seminar Papers, Law Review Notes and Law Review Competition Papers
Publisher: West; West Academic Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780314207203
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: scholarly writing in law school; title: 2. Inspiration: choosing a topic and developing a thesis; title: 3. The mostly research stage; title: 4. The writing process: getting it down on paper; title: 5. The writing process: revising and polishing; title: 6. Footnotes and the ethical use of borrowed materials; title: 7. Writing with care; title: 8. Writing with style; title: 9. The law review process: evaluating and editing the work of others; title: 10. Getting mileage: winning awards, publishing your work, and joining the conversation; title: Appendix A: Sample casenote/competition paper; title: Appendix B: Answers to exercises; title: Appendix C: Scholarly writing workshops and courses