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Dovetailing Language and Content: Teaching Balanced Argument in Legal Problem Answer Writing.
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Bruce, Nigel – English for Specific Purposes, 2002
Describes an approach to teaching first-year law students in an English for academic purposes course on how to write the academic genre of the legal problem answer. Offers students rhetorical tools to translate legal reasoning moves into effective written response to legal problems. The dovetailing of language and content involved considerable…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes, Law Students