Best Practices? Lessons from Technical Communication for Online Legal Writing Instruction

24 Pages Posted: 26 Jun 2020

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Brian Larson

Texas A&M University School of Law

Date Written: June 19, 2020

Abstract

There exists a rich literature of legal-writing pedagogy, but legal writing has come somewhat late to the online education space. Meanwhile, the allied field of technical communication has been delivering courses (and degree programs) online since the mid 1990s. This bibliographic essay seeks to offer some connections, insights, and resources that technical communication scholarship may be able to offer to legal writing teachers who choose (or are forced) to deliver education online. The author prepared this essay for the LR&W Online Teaching Excellence Conference, William & Mary Law School, June 19, 2020.

Keywords: online education, legal writing, technical communication, synchronous, asynchronous, peer review

JEL Classification: K40

Suggested Citation

Larson, Brian, Best Practices? Lessons from Technical Communication for Online Legal Writing Instruction (June 19, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3631077 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3631077

Brian Larson (Contact Author)

Texas A&M University School of Law ( email )

1515 Commerce St.
Fort Worth, TX Tarrant County 76102
United States

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