Monday, July 22, 2024
Lawrence: One Professor’s Best Practices For Writing And Revising The Introduction To A Law Review Article
Matt Lawrence (Emory; Google Scholar), One Professor’s Best Practices for Writing and Revising the Introduction to a Law Review Article:
I love reading law review articles, and I think that is in large part because being forced to write in part for a generalist audience and student editors pushes authors to do a number of ultimately positive things in our writing and scholarship. Over time, and based on my reading of articles I thought had terrific introductions, I’ve collected some guiding thoughts for myself about best practices I try to employ when I construct an introduction. I have sketched these out below. Some of these are specific points for inclusion in the introduction, others are features of a good article that manifest in the introduction.
I first developed this as a bullet point list for myself, then expanded a bit for colleagues, then flushed it out to share with fellows in the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law Fellowship program. In the spirit of that program, which seeks to break down barriers to entry into legal academia, I am giving the list a public, accessible home. These are just the views of one law professor, but I have been told they are helpful by others. I have also personally found them helpful, and they guided my writing as I successfully navigated the law review submission cycle eight times in the last four years. ...
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