Document Type
Article
Publication
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing
Year
2014
Citation Information
Karen Skinner, The 'Shock and Awe' Approach to Legal Research: Helping Students Understand Their Research Deficiencies So That They Are Better Prepared To Learn Legal Research, 23 Perspectives 47 (2014), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/1922.
Abstract
This article discusses the unique approach that the law librarians at the University of Southern California use during first-year legal research to expose student overconfidence in research skills and to teach a new framework for improving those skills.
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