201.01 Legal Writing: Craft & Style
Legal Writing: Craft & Style is a two-credit boot camp for 2L JDs who want to work towards acquiring professional-level writing and editing skills. Through weekly writing projects, students will master the line-editing techniques for creating optimal sentences and paragraphs. Through intensive study, practice, and an exit exam, students will master the essentials of grammar, usage, and copyediting expected of professional writers. Finally, each student will deploy these skills by creating two pieces of original writing commonly expected of young lawyers: a client letter and a client update on a development in the law. Throughout the course, students will have individual support and feedback for their work.
Special Notes:
2L JDs Only
Fall 2024
| Course Number | Course Credits | Evaluation Method | Instructor | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201.01 |
2
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Practical exercises
Class participation
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Kendall Gray | ||
| Canvas site: https://canvas.duke.edu/courses/41567 | |||||
| Course | |
| Degree Requirements |
JD elective
IntlLLM-SJD-EXC elective
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| Course Areas of Practice |
Civil Litigation: Practice and Procedure
Constitutional Law and Civil Rights
Law, Democracy, and Society
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