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Are We Teaching Our Students What They Need to Survive in the Real World? Results of a Survey

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Lawrence D. Rosenthal

Teaching Synthesis in High-Tech Classrooms: Using Sophisticated Visual Tools Alongside Socratic Dialogue to Help Guide Students Through the Labyrinth

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Craig T. Smith

Certificate Program in Advanced Legal Writing: Mercer's Advanced Writing Curriculum

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Linda H. Edwards

TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING ...

Teaching Advanced Electronic Legal Research for the Modern Practice of Law

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Steven R. Miller

BRUTAL CHOICES IN CURRICULAR DESIGN ...

Teaching Student Editors to Edit

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Terri LeClercq

Obtaining Copyright Permissions: Online Resources

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Ann Hemmens

Using Electronic Research to Detect Sources of Plagiarized Materials

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Anna M. Cherry

WRITING TIPS ...

So What? Why Should I Care? And Other Questions Writers Must Answer

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Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams

TEACHABLE MOMENTS FOR TEACHERS ...

Teaching the Poetry of the Question Presented

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Tracy Bach

TEACHABLE MOMENTS FOR STUDENTS ...

What Gives Cities and Counties the Authority to Create Charters, Ordinances, and Codes?

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Peter J. Egler

Two Programs Are Better Than One: Coordinating Efforts Between Academic Support and Legal Writing Departments

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Herbert N. Ramy

LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING RESOURCES ...

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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Donald J. Dunn

BOOK REVIEW ...

Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won't Learn in Class

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April Martin

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