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The Monograph Series of the Legal Writing InstituteTable of Contents, including links to volumes Description and Administration of Series
Scope and Goals Scope and GoalsScope: The Monograph Series will be a sequence of electronic volumes posted on the LWI web site. Each volume will focus on a specific topic relevant to teaching, curriculum, scholarship or status of Legal Writing professionals and will include substantial, well-developed pieces of scholarship in the form of law review articles or book chapters that have been previously published elsewhere. The Editorial Board will choose the content for each volume and then contact the authors and publishers for copyright permission. The Series will benefit all teachers in the Legal Writing community, but individual volumes will be directed to different audiences in the profession; some volumes will be directed to new teachers or experienced teachers, and others will be directed to teachers across a range of experience. The specific target audience will obviously depend upon the subject focus of the particular volume. For instance, Volume One addresses a fundamental teaching methodology—providing feedback on written work—and it will therefore have a primary audience of newer teachers yet will also benefit more experienced teachers. Goals: This Series will be valuable to all members of the Legal Writing community. First, volumes on specific fundamental topics about teaching and curriculum will support new legal writing teachers in learning their craft as well as prevent them from “reinventing the wheel” since they will have one convenient place to access what has already been written by experienced members of the discipline. Monograph volumes will also rejuvenate more experienced teachers by giving them easy access to articles with different points of view about the same topic. Second, by collecting all articles relevant to important topics, the Series will provide scholars with a basic reference tool and a foundation for further scholarship in the same or related areas. BackgroundIn January 2008, the LWI Board approved the Monograph Committee’s proposal for a monograph series that would reprint foundational Legal Writing scholarship in subject-oriented electronic volumes on the LWI web site. It also appointed Jane Kent Gionfriddo as the first Editor-in-Chief of the Series. First VolumeThe first volume of the Monograph Series, “The Art of Critiquing Written Work,” includes articles discussing feedback on written work by teachers and peers as well as self-critique by authors. This volume contains articles of interest to both experienced and newer teachers of Legal Writing. Second VolumeThe second volume of the Monograph Series will be “The New Teacher’s Deskbook” and will include a range of articles addressing approaches to teaching legal analysis, research and writing. This volume should be posted on the web site by Summer 2011. Updating VolumesThe Editorial Board will continually update the Monograph Series so that all volumes remain current. As new pieces of scholarship are published, the Board will evaluate whether they would add substantial value to any volume of the Series. Search CapabilityIt is possible to search for words and phrases in each individual pdf, using the “Find” button at the top of the pdf screen. At the present time, however, it is not possible to search throughout all articles in the Monograph Series. The more recent articles—in pdf form converted from the original Word document—will be searchable by natural language when that capability is introduced on the LWI site in the near future. The older articles—in pdf form scanned from the print version with optical character resolution—will only be searchable if we introduce a special search engine, which is under investigation and study. Viewing Article PdfsFor the best results, use Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 to view the article
pdfs. Click this button to download. Links Among Articles in the Monograph SeriesAny article that is in pdf form converted from the original Word document includes active links to other articles in the Monograph Series. These links are found in any footnote where an article in the Series is cited for the first time. DownloadingIndividual articles or an entire volume may be downloaded from the Table of Contents page for any particular volume of the Monograph Series. Editorial BoardIn Spring 2008, the Editor-in-Chief began working with the members of the original Monograph Committee, which included Susan DeJarnatt (Temple University), Steven Johansen (Lewis and Clark), Alison Julien (Marquette), and Kathleen Elliott Vinson (Suffolk). These individuals have formed the Editorial Board for Volume One of the Series. This group will propose membership policies and procedures to the LWI Board in Fall 2009. Once these policies and procedures have been approved by the Board, they will be posted on the web site and on the listservs so that members of the Legal Writing community will be able to apply to serve as editors of the Monograph Series. Board Membership Policies and ProceduresSee Editorial Board above. The Board Membership Policies and Procedures’ link will be active once the draft policies and procedures have been submitted to and approved by the LWI Board. ContactProfessor Jane Kent Gionfriddo |
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