Common First-Year Student Writing Errors

Dunnewold, Mary

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Common First-Year Student Writing Errors

Mary Dunnewold

Hamline University School of Law

2000

Perspectives: Teaching and Legal Research and Writing, Vol. 9, p. 14, 2000

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In this article, the author describes a list of a few basic principles that first-year legal writers need to learn. Dunnewold stresses the following: (1) think ahead, (2) understand the appropriate support for a legal argument, (3) understand analogical argument, (4) focus on a few basic sentence structure principles, (5) focus on connectors, and (6) a rule is not a case illustration is not an argument.

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Keywords: First-year legal writers, legal writing teacher, legal writing instructor, analogical argument, errors

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Date posted: November 7, 2011

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Dunnewold, Mary, Common First-Year Student Writing Errors (2000). Perspectives: Teaching and Legal Research and Writing, Vol. 9, p. 14, 2000. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1954792

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Mary Dunnewold (Contact Author)

Hamline University School of Law ( email )

1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1237
United States