Exporting doctrine into the legal writing classroom is an innovative way to achieve writing-across-the-curriculum goals to enhance and increase student learning of skills, particularly the skill of writing.
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Current discussion has begun to debunk the core belief supporting the imposed schism that only pure doctrinal courses have the intellectual heft necessary for inclusion in mainstream law school curricula.
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Professors must integrate print and online research training without seeming hopelessly old-fashioned while encouraging new attorneys to use free alternatives for online research.
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These remarks are from the keynote address at the 20th Anniversary Legal Writing Institute Conference, Seattle, Washington, July 2004