Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Session 1, 9:30-10:15am
"A Matter of Style": Preparing First-Year Law Students to Write to Audiences with Distinct and Diverse Stylistic Preferences
Jennifer Murphy Romig
Program Code: W1D
Introducing first-year students to specific stylistic preferences they may see in practice helps them to imagine real legal readers, helps debunk the monolithic view of the legal reader, and helps prepare them to change writing conventions that are not effective.