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Writing Resource Center
Writing Skills Workshops
During the first half of each semester, the Writing Resource Center offers workshops on a variety of writing-related topics. Most workshops run from one to two hours.
Approximately one week before each workshop, you will receive registration information by email, so be sure to check you JMLS email account regularly.
Writing skills workshops include:
Moving From Objective to Persuasive Writing: The Art of Spinning Language
Date and Time: Feb. 2 | 10 a.m.-Noon
Room: 200
Suggested Audience: Candidates taking Lawyering Skills II
Registration Information: email Jeanne Lamar
This workshop will teach you the persuasion skills you'll need when writing demand letters, memos, and briefs.
Grammar Overview
Date and Time: Feb. 3 | Noon-2 p.m.
Room: 200
Suggested Audience: All candidates
Registration Information: email Caryn Suder
This review of grammar rules and parts of speech is filled with explanations and exercises. It will benefit any degree candidate who needs a brief "refresher course" before beginning to write.
Organizing Your First Memo: Understanding IRAC and Its Kin
Date and Time: Feb. 6 | Noon-2 p.m.
Room: 200
Or
Date and Time: Feb. 10 | Noon-2 p.m.
Room: 300
Suggested Audience: Candidates taking Lawyering Skills I; All candidates
Registration Information: email Alice Burke
This interactive workshop will help you understand how to organize legal memos and will prepare you to write your first memo.
Avoiding Plagiarism: Workshop for International Students
Date and Time: Feb. 16 | 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
Room: 300
Suggested Audience: International degree candidates; All candidates
Registration Information: email Lurene Contento
Plagiarism is a serious academic concern. Sanctions for plagiarizing can be severe. In this workshop, you'll learn what plagiarism is and how to avoid it. The workshop will give students the opportunity to identify plagiarism and to practice proper attribution, paraphrase, and quotation. If you have questions about what is or is not plagiarism, this workshop is for you.
3 Ps: Punctuation, Pronouns, and Parallelism
Date and Time: Feb. 17 | Noon-2 p.m.
Room: 1102
Suggested Audience: All candidates
Registration Information: email Caryn Suder
We'll focus on three of the most common errors found in law students' writing. The workshop includes several exercises that will help you write error free.
Beginning Citation: Learn to Cite (and Quote) Like a Pro
Date and Time: Feb. 20 | Noon-2 p.m.
Room: 409
Or
Date and Time: Feb. 23 | 10 a.m.-Noon
Room: 522
Suggested Audience: First-semester degree candidates
Registration Information: email Jeanne Lamar
This workshop will help familiarize you with the many rules of citation.
Avoiding Passive Voice and Other Word-Wasters
Date and Time: March 2 | Noon-1 p.m.
Room: 200
Suggested Audience: All candidates
Registration Information: email Caryn Suder
Make your reader's job easier; learn to cut unnecessary words from your memos and briefs.
If you have a suggestion for a writing-related workshop that you would find useful, please share it with us.
