Law School Academic Support Blog

Editor: Goldie Pritchard
Michigan State University

Sunday, May 8, 2005

A Tool for Improving Student Articles

Do you offer writing advice to students?

  • How to write exam answers?
  • How to write legal writing, legal methods, legal research papers?
  • How to write seminar papers?

This article (52 J. Legal Educ. 440, No. 3, Sept. 2002) describes how to avoid "tunnel vision" when writing seminar papers. 

Volokh Writing expert (guru?) Professor Eugene Volokh borrows the systematic concept of "test suites" from the computer programmer world, to explain how students can be guided away from the tendency to generalize and leave essential counterexamples unexamined. (djt)

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