1L of a ride : a well-traveled professor's roadmap to success in the first year of law school /
"[This book provides a] roadmap to both academic and emotional success in law school's crucial first year...[Covered] topics in the revised and updated third edition include pre-planning, top student fears, first-year curriculum, the Socratic and case methods of teaching, effective class p...
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St. Paul, MN :
West Academic Publishing,
2017
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| Edition: | Third edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Destination law school
- Pre-trip planning: what to do before you arrive
- Fear factor: top five law student worries
- What kind of student do you want to be: twenty law student types
- The first-year curriculum: what to expect
- The first days: starting out right
- The Socratic and case methods
- Reasons to participate in class and ten tips for doing it well
- Law professors
- The top five habits of successful students: a C.R.E.D.O.
- Case-briefing
- Note-taking
- Outlining
- A short course in law school exams
- Exam preparation
- Law school essay exams: fifteen common mistakes
- Tackling law school multiple-choice questions
- Legal research and writing: an interview with five experts
- The bleak side of law school
- Maintaining well-being
- Welcome back to the jungle: the perilous second semester
- "Night" and other nontraditional students
- Law school and outside relationships
- Law review, moot court, and other extracurricular activities
- Recapping law school's first year in the words of students
- The end of a long and grinding road
- Appendix. Sample essay question