Developing Your Academic Skills for Law
This non-credit bearing course provides input on key academic skills with most focus on reading academic legal texts and writing three types of legal text: extended essay, exam essay, and exam problem tasks. There is no formal assessment for this course; however, you can receive feedback on your writing.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course you should be able to:
- apply frameworks and strategies to improve your academic legal reading and writing
- understand the basics of Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
- recognise descriptive, analytical, and critical writing
- relate analysis, synthesis and critical thinking to legal analysis and its specific requirements
- understand the basics of both inductive and deductive logic and apply it to simple situations to build arguments
- recognise how the premises of an argument are set out in introductions to essays
- consider and share successful learning and study strategies in contexts such as essay writing and exam preparation
Requirements of Entry
The course is open for any current LLM student.
Timetable
This course is online. Live sessions take place on Fridays 9:00 – 10:30 (approximately) plus there are flexible Q&A slots. For more information, self sign-up here
https://moodle.gla.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2996#section-0
Password: DYAS2020
NB For LLM students and for anyone else studying law (or law subjects) at University of Glasgow but are not a post-graduate student, you can access assistance by self-registering on this Microsoft Team https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a32d8eb98b1564732bd1deba9ce7ce2a2%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=7a0da98e-5c80-4253-b2e3-5580f4194d54&tenantId=6e725c29-763a-4f50-81f2-2e254f0133c8