Closing the Feedback Gap: Reflections as Diagnostic Resource

Providing students with helpful, actionable feedback is a perennial challenge. This presentation identifies an additional data source for instructors when drafting feedback: digital student reflections. This process has a dual benefit for both instructors and students. For instructors, digitized reflections unlock an understanding of why a student drafted a certain way, minimizing guesswork and ensuring more targeted feedback. For students, this process directs the instructor’s gaze to a concrete concern or discomfort for immediate response. While not a solution for all feedback problems, digitizing student reflections allows instructors and students to work together to close the gap

An Integrated Approach to Citation Literacy

This presentation explored how integrating citation literacy instruction into the fundamentals could lead to more durable learning for students and identify five quick methods to make it happen

Creating Shared Understanding: Preparing Students for a Modern Client Base

The Legal Writing Institute hosted a series of one-day workshops at various law schools, including at CWRU, where the theme of the workshops was Preparing Students for the Modern Practice of Law. This presentation discusses how to prepare students for a modern, globalized client base, and provides tips and tools to help create a shared understanding between clients and future practitioners

Drawing Connections: A Guide to Visual Advocacy for Lawyers

Twelve thousand. That’s the word limit for opening briefs in Washington appellate courts. Figuring the average reader can process 256 words per minute, that’s slightly more than a 45-minute read time. Per brief. How can you cut through word count and make your writing memorable? Incorporate visuals. When combined with text, visuals boost comprehension and retention. Our brains process images faster than text. And images stick: readers recall images more clearly than text. In short, visuals bring fuzzy text into focus