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		<title>First-year legal writing mistakes &amp; how to avoid them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 07:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In undergrad, you were a term paper pro. You could crank out thought-provoking three- to five-page term papers replete with resplendent prose and droll, pithy observations, impressing your professors by transforming minutiae into master­pieces. You razzle-dazzled them with all your word bling. In law school, no one is impressed by your word bling. Less is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflective Practice in Legal Education: &#8220;Debriefing&#8221; Our Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2014 05:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. So begins Tim Casey&#8217;s article, Reflective Practice in Legal Education: The Stages of Reflection, published in the Clinical Law Review. I had the pleasure of witnessing Casey&#8217;s presentation on Reflecting Practice in Legal Education at the Legal Writing Institute&#8217;s One Day Workshop. Casey notes that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring Law Student Learning Outcomes Using Pre and Post Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written about the counter-intuitive value of pre-testing, giving a test of material not yet learned, in order to prime the brain for learning to come and establish expectations for learning objectives. I have since stumbled across an article by David J. Herring and Collin Lynch, Measuring Law Student Learning Outcomes: 2013 Lawyering Class. Herring and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Shortcut: Harnessing the Power of the Analogical Instinct</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analogies are not just used by legal writers. According to a recent post on Fast Company, The Creative Life by David Zax, the most creative problem solvers in many industries draw from diverse sources of information to harness the usefulness of analogies. Zax interviewed John Pollack, former Bill Clinton speechwriter and author of new book [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Handwriting v. Typing Note Taking Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Handwriting and idea generation go hand in hand. Researchers suggest that students may learn better when they take notes by hand, that the act of &#8220;putting it down&#8221; on paper forces the writer to focus on what is really important. According to a recent article from Pam A. Mueller of Princeton and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Does reading on digital devices lead to deep reading?</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2014/05/10/does-reading-on-digital-devices-lead-to-deep-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2014 17:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does the technology we use to read actually change the way we read and comprehend written material? Is reading on a screen a different mental process than reading on paper? Reading is such a critical component for legal education and many legal scholars have found that effective reading comprehension skills are a key differentiator between [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Law School Flash Fiction: Describe Law School In 6 Words Or Less</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2013/09/24/law-school-flash-fiction-describe-law-school-in-6-words-or-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Mazzie, a legal writing professor at Marquette University Law School, challenged her students to a round of &#8220;flash fiction&#8221; &#8211; writing a story in six words or less. Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway won a bet challenging him to write a story in six words or less. His flash fiction: &#8220;For sale: baby [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Judges do not like &#8220;redundancy, verbosity, and legalism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2012/11/16/redundancy-verbosity-and-legalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the dilemma. You cannot see how you could possibly reduce your brief to meet the court&#8217;s (stingy!) page limit. Every word , every sub-sub-section you slaved over is precious. What to do? You file a motion with the court to submit your overstuffed, er, overlength brief. The court&#8217;s response? Instead of simply denying your [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>More Readability, Less Alphabet Soup: Why Lawyers Should Minimize The Acronyms</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2012/10/12/more-readability-less-alphabet-soup-why-lawyers-should-minimize-the-acronyms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2012/10/12/more-readability-less-alphabet-soup-why-lawyers-should-minimize-the-acronyms/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Using more acronyms do not make your writing seem impressive or make you sound more knowledgeable. In fact, the opposite may be true. For example: Following execution of the Select/CL &#38; P Letter Agreement, CL &#38; P filed an action with the DPUC to allow CL &#38; P to recover from its customers the increased [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Avoid Sexism in Legal Writing: A Pronoun Primer</title>
		<link>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2012/10/10/how-to-avoid-sexism-in-legal-writing-a-pronoun-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jennifermcooper.com/2012/10/10/how-to-avoid-sexism-in-legal-writing-a-pronoun-primer/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer M. Cooper]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good legal writers should write in such a way that no one could call sexist, but also appears totally natural and not contrived. Bryan Garner recommends that legal writers adopt a style that &#8220;no reasonable person could call sexist [and that] never suggests that you&#8217;re contorting your language to be nonsexist.&#8221; In Modern American Usage, Garner [&#8230;]]]></description>
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