Writing Better Law School Exams: The Importance of Structure
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Alternatively, CALI has these podcasts on Exam Taking Skills...
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Tips for Multiple Choice Exams in Law School Podcast
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Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students: Panel 1 PodCast
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Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students: Panel 2 PodCast
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Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students: Panel 3 PodCast
This program is designed to be useful to students interested in improving their exam-writing techniques. In much of the written work done by lawyers (including writing exams as students), a special form of writing is used. The program begins with an explicit discussion of that form, and the structural implications it has. Within that specific context, the program goes on to discuss the tasks to be performed, the tools used in performing those tasks, and methods of sharpening those tools. The program concludes with some interactive opportunities to try the techniques described.
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