The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction


CALI Lesson Detail


William Andersen
Judson Falknor Professor of Law
University of Washington School of Law

Approximate completion time 1.5 hours.


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Writing Better Law School Exams: The Importance of Structure

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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