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Using Formulas to Help Students Master the "R" and "A" of IRAC
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Hollee S. Temple

Communicating Explanatory Synthesis
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Michael D. Murray

Topic Sentences—Potentially Brilliant Moments of Synthesis
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Anne Enquist

The Importance of Culture and Cognition—A Review of The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why
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Cliff Zimmerman

Teaching U.S. Legal Research to International Graduate Students: A Librarian's Perspective
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Shannon L. Malcolm

Finding and Using Statistics in Legal Research and Writing
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Billie Jo Kaufman

Teaching Taxonomies
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Thomas Keefe

Using Alternative Dispute Resolution in Legal Writing Courses
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Kathleen Portuan Miller

Beyond Offering Examples of Good Writing: Let the Students Grade the Models
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Louis J. Sirico Jr.

Laptops in the Classroom: Pondering the Possibilities
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Tracy L. McGaugh

The Perils of E-Mail
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Stephen V. Armstrong and Timothy P. Terrell

My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
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Sharon Pocock

Recent Publications
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Donald J. Dunn

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