This seminar is designed to prepare students who have been selected to be Honors Writing Scholars to serve as teaching assistants in the spring RRWA program. Seminar participants will examine teaching and learning theory in the context of teaching legal writing. This course offers law students the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of legal education as well as how legal research, reasoning, writing, and advocacy skills are developed in the law school context. Participants will have the opportunity to help develop legal writing problem sets and to explore effective ways to critique writing. Law students interested in judicial clerkships, appellate advocacy, law teaching, or other higher education teaching would benefit from participating in this seminar.
Seminar Themes: teaching & learning, writing & editing, teamwork, problem-solving, mentoring, leadership & engagement, service & contribution, diversity, higher education.