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Teaching Bank Membership<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Looking for an effective self-assessment tool for your students’ first IRAC<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><span><span><span>[1]</span></span></span></a> assignment? We were too. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>Most students come to law school with a vague sense of the acronym IRAC (the traditional legal writing format of issue, rule, analysis, and conclusion), and some reluctant willingness to use it: they know they are graded on writing in IRAC form and they want to get good grades, so they try to use it.
<h2>From the editors....</h2>
<p>You probably notice that this issue of The Second Draft is about twice its usual length. We expanded this issue to allow us to include the many responses we received to our call for comments on the use of IRAC in the first year curriculum. Many thanks to all who contributed.</p>