Building an evolving method and materials for teaching legal writing in large classes

Higher Education

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 839-851

  Clarence, Sherran ^a   Albertus, Latiefa ^a   Mwambene, Lea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Academic literacies; Academic writing; Collaboration; Discourse; Large class teaching; Law; Legal writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902543796     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9707-8     Document Type: Article

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