The Second Draft
The Second Draft is the newsletter of the Legal Writing Institute
and is published twice each year. Its primary purposes are to share
information about LWI members, legal writing and research programs,
and Institute business, and to provide an environment for sharing
ideas and discoveries about teaching legal writing and research.
With the exception of newsletters that follow LWI conferences,
which are largely devoted to committee reports and other Institute
business, each issue of The Second Draft collects essays written
around a central theme that relates to some question or challenge
facing those who teach legal writing and research. Past themes have
included methodologies for teaching analysis in the classroom, different
approaches to commenting on students' writing, and incorporating
technology into the legal writing and research classroom.
The current editors of The Second Draft are:
Updating information on our membership list will help us deliver
the newsletter to the right address. If you need to add or update
membership information, please contact Yonna Shaw at Shaw_YW@Mercer.edu.
Be sure to include your name, title, organization, address (including
city, state, and zip code), e-mail address, and telephone number
in your e-mail.
Call for Submissions
The Fall 2008 issue of The Second Draft will address "Techniques
for Teaching Statutory Interpretation and Analysis." We encourage
your submissions on methods of addressing statutory interpretation
and analysis with your students.
Please review the submission guidelines
prior to submitting your article. We request that you limit
your submissions to approximately 650 words. The deadline for submissions
is June 2, 2008, and we regret that we cannot accept submissions
received after that date.
Second Draft issues in PDF* format
(* If you do not already have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may download
it here.)
Volume 22,
No. 2 Spring 2008: Teaching to Different Learning Styles
Volume 22, No.
1 August 2007: Providing Effective Feedback
Volume 21, No. 2 December
2006: From Law Student to Lawyer
Volume 21, No.
1 August 2006:2006 LWI Conference
Volume 20, No. 2 December 2005:
Teaching Difficult Concepts
Volume 20, No. 1 August 2005:
My Best Class. (Please note that this edition of The Second
Draft is in publishing layout format.)
Volume 19, No. 2: No issue published.
Volume 19, No. 1 December 2004:
The 2004 LWI Conference.
Volume 18, No. 2 June 2004:
What keeps us going: professional development and keeping up morale.
Volume 18, No. 1 December 2003:
Who are our students?
Volume 17, No. 2 July 2003:
What are we teaching?
Volume 17, No. 1 December 2002:
The LWI conference/ informational issue.
Volume 16, No. 2 May 2002:
A third semester of legal writing.
Volume 16, No. 1 December 2001:
Teaching students to persuade.
Volume 15, No. 2 June 2001:
Collaboration and cooperation in the legal writing classroom.
Volume 15, No. 1 January 2001:
The LWI conference; President’s address on ABA accreditation
standards and their effects on the teaching of legal writing and
research.
Volume 14, No. 2 May 2000:
“How do I teach my students the legal analysis that is the
foundation of any piece of legal writing?”
Volume 14, No. 1 November 1999:
Perspectives on and approaches to responding to student writing.
Volume 13, No. 2 May 1999:
Essays by members of the Institute on the uses of technology in
connection with legal writing courses.
Volume 13, No. 1 November 1998:
Report on the work of the Institute at and after its 1998 conference
in Ann Arbor.
Volume 12, No. 2 May 1998: No issue published.
Volume 12, No. 1 November 1997:
Essays on techniques for teaching legal writing.
Volume 11, No. 2 May 1997:
Forum on goals for first-year legal research and writing programs.
Volume 11, No. 1 November 1996:
Reports from the Chair of the Board of Directors and committees
of the institute.
Volume 10, No. 2 May 1996:
Informational Issue: Call for submissions of summaries of upcoming
conferences.
Volume 10, No. 1 November 1995:
Responses to Vol. 9, No. 2: Is IRAC a helpful tool?
Volume 9, No. 2 May 1995:
Is IRAC a helpful tool for teaching analysis?
Volume 9, No. 1 November 1994:
The 1994 Conference of the Legal Writing Institute at Chicago-Kent
College of Law: A summary of expositions and presentations.
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