Writing for Practice (Gowen)
Faculty
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| Gayle Gowen Legal Practice Skills Senior Lecturer; Director, Moot Court and LLM Practice Skills gowen@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Drafting Legal Documents
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
15% Participation,
70% Paper,
15% Other (Editing and feedback exercise where students provide feedback on prior work; simulated supervisor meetings where students discuss legal analyses they have prepared with a supervisor and a group of colleagues.)
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can send you an email with instructions for accessing the recording for the class session(s) you missed.
Meeting Times/Location
R 1:00PM - 2:59PM
Tanenbaum Hall 320
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
2.0
This quarter-long, advanced writing course is taught in a seminar format, and it builds on the research, writing, and editing skills taught in the first-year Legal Practice Skills course. The course uses a series of shorter research, analysis, and writing assignments to teach three essential lawyering skills for junior-level litigators: (1) the nuts and bolts of distilling complex research and analysis into a short, substantive email; (2) how to work with primary documents, court filings, and research results to identify legal issues, frame an argument effectively, and think strategically on the client’s behalf; and (3) how to organize complex research results and succinctly present work in face-to-face meetings. Students will be graded on three short writing assignments, one in-person presentation, and their overall class participation/professionalism. In addition to written feedback on each writing assignment, students will receive feedback at individual conferences. Students will complete writing and editing assignments both inside and out of class. Because of the participatory nature of the course, class attendance is essential.
Skills Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of the individual course skill; Demonstrate the ability to receive and implement feedback; Demonstrate an understanding of how and when the individual course skill is employed in practice.