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Research for Essay Writing in English

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Welcome to the Research and Essay Writing Library Guide. This guide is built to help students taking the course ENG 1100 succeed in their research paper assignments and to support any undergraduate students that are getting started with the research process.

Use the tabs at your left to navigate through the research process steps, and find tools and resources.

Need personalized help?  Contact me (see contact information on the left) or your specialized subject librarian for help with library research related to the course ENG1100 or any research assignment. 

Learning Objectives

Based on the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education,  here's what you should be able to do after having completed the research process steps of this guide:

• Develop an appropriate research plan, while understanding that research is iterative (cyclical process) and that the plan may change throughout the research process
• Analyze and interpret the information collected using a growing awareness of the topic to decide whether additional information is required or recognize when the information need has been met
• Identify potential places to go and individuals to contact, within the library, for additional support and assistance

The Search Process

Remember that the search process is not linear, it is cyclical and iterative . You might need to repeat or refine some steps to successfully achieve your research goals. 

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Workshop in Essay Writing

Easy. Half of the classes are just discussions, and the other classes are just quizes on things like commas and apostrophes. Simple if you speak english.

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Honours BA Communication

Ours is the communication and information age. Analyzing how information is gathered, produced and distributed today helps us understand the communication processes that drive a variety of settings: social, cultural, political, organizational, economic and legal. In this program, you will develop critical and analytical skills in order to evaluate the nature and impact of technology and media on society, organizations and interpersonal relations. You will have the opportunity to be exposed to the latest developments in the field of communication (communication strategies, digital media, evolution of the media industry, advertising, crisis communications, negotiations, etc.). The Department of Communication offers courses in two main areas: media studies and organizational communication (internal and external communication in public and private organizations, health communication, organizational change, etc.). Combining theory and practice, our programs develop your critical and analytical skills and prepare you either for a professional career or for advanced studies.

This program is offered in English and in French.

Co-operative education is available with this program.

The French immersion is available with this program.

Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2019-2020 calendars  for the previous requirements.

The electives may be replaced by a combination of a Minor, Option(s) , and/or elective units.

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The following courses may count in this requirement: ENG 3170, ENG 3171, FRA 3548, FRA 3549, FRA 3578, SRS 3100, SRS 3113, SRS 3190.

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About the legal writing academy, practical experiential writing instruction in all three years .

Our students live the practical experience of thinking like a lawyer while making writing choices based on the context, audience, and purpose, of the document. We integrate practical writing instruction throughout all three years of legal study . Students gain experience with real-life writing demands through credited writing courses, workshops and modules integrated into first-year and upper-year substantive courses, free-standing workshops, and peer-mentoring conferences.

Experiential and active learning drives the Academy’s approach. We use real life writing tasks, combined with personalized and frequent feedback and mentoring. Students learn to self- and peer-edit and discover that becoming an expert legal writer is an enjoyable, life-long endeavor.

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We integrate writing modules into substantive law course. Our legal writing professors duplicate a realistic legal problem based on material supplied by the professor teaching the substantive law course.  The content expert professor sets the knowledge-based learning goals and the writing professor sets the legal writing goals.  Students learn the law as they would on the job, by writing a predictive legal memo, client advice letter, persuasive policy brief, factum, or brief to the court. The writing professors teach the ins and outs of writing effective predictive and persuasive documents.  The writing module includes a class on self-editing and a reflective writer’s note capturing the student’s learning and new writing strategies.

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First-year students are off to a solid start in our workshop, How to Read a Case Like an Expert. Then our writing professors deliver an interactive workshop series in the first-year torts, criminal and introduction to public and constitutional law seminar courses. You learn about writing for a legal audience in Writing for the Legal Reader . You’ll learn tools for understanding and organizing your research and writing tasks in Think Like a Lawyer – Write Like a Pro . The difference between predictive and persuasive writing will become clear in, Advise the Client, Persuade the Court . And you’ll polish a first-year writing assignment using our five-layered approach in How to Edit Your Own Work. The Dispute Resolution and Professional Responsibility course includes a Fall term module on writing memos and a January term module on client advice letters.

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You will write more in your first three months of practice than in all three years of law school. Our LWA courses give you the practical writing skills you need for any legal career you choose. And all the seminars have limited enrollment to ensure you get targeted, personal feedback.

CML 4307 Write with Purpose: Essential Skills for Lawyers You’ll practice writing legal documents with effective analysis, clarity, style, correct grammar, and cultural and gender sensitivity. You’ll practice writing sharp, clear prose, editing your own and others’ writing, and become efficient at composing and organizing any legal document.

CML 4113 Legal Writing and Social Justice (Selected Problems in Legal Practice) You’ll work on a social justice writing project of practical use to the community, a non-governmental organization, a charity, a government entity, or a vulnerable group. You polish your legal research and writing skills through in-class exercises, legal memos, and writing a persuasive document. Class work will expose you to social justice issues of the day and examples of social justice writing. Your final assignment is a legal writing project you choose aimed at a social justice goal. You can show your work to organizations that you might wish to work with in the future.

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CML 3174 Dean’s Research and Writing Fellows A unique and challenging opportunity open to top achieving upper-year students with strong writing skills and demonstrated leadership abilities . Dean’s Fellows work with a lawyer-mentor on an advanced and real research problem and receive intensive writing instruction from the Professor. Dean’s Fellows learn new research skills and produce high quality written work that showcases their writing skills. Fellows engage their leadership and research skills by leading small tutorial sessions of the first-year course, Legal Foundations CML 1101. The course satisfies the Major Paper Requirement.

CML 4113 Legal Writing Portfolio and Leadership (Selected Problems in Legal Practice) Students with excellent writing and interpersonal skills produce high-quality legal writing to showcase to future employers. Students learn self-editing and peer mentoring skills. Students who demonstrate outstanding writing and interpersonal skills are eligible to become paid Legal Writing Academy Peer Mentors during the academic year.

CML 4113 Legal Memos Made Easy (Selected Problems in Legal Practice): Online Summer Course. Over the summer you’ll gain legal analysis and writing skills as you write and polish a legal memo you can use as a writing sample. You work primarily at your own pace to fit the course work with your summer work schedule. Students report spending three-ten hours a week completing the course modules. The Professor supports your summer work with feedback, check-in meetings, an editing class, and an individual meeting before you submit your graded memo. And from time-to-time you’ll meet with some experienced peers. (For 2022 we’re offering a Summer-Fall version with Fall term Saturday workshop sessions to satisfy the 30-in person credit requirement for students graduating in 2023).

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Students looking for legal writing and editing strategies or advice on overcoming writer’s block, or help understanding a writing assignment, or a refresher on the elements of good structure or editing for clarity can sign-up for an individual 45-minute Legal Writing Conference with a LWA Writing Leader. Our Writing Leaders are upper-year law students with strong legal writing and analysis skills, trained as legal writing peer-mentors to help other students become better writers. You can bring a completed assignment or a work-in-progress to the conference.

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Point First Writing & Online Resources

A unique, interactive website supporting face-to-race classroom work and as a stand-alone, self-study resource that law students and graduates use during internships, pro bono activities, summer jobs, and as articling students and new associates in law firms. You can access the module components anytime you need to write an assignment for school or work.

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Legal Memos Made Easy doubles as a resource for writing predictive legal memos and developing targeted skills like writing strong introductions, clear issue statements, and well-organized and complete facts. Getting Ready to Write helps students organize research for any legal document Crafting the Memo’s Parts gives in-depth instruction on specific memo components. Interactive online exercises with immediate feedback in the form of sample answers, and audio and video comments. Two Sample Memos, based on real-life client narratives, create a writer-mentor experience though embedded text, audio and video “Practice Tips” In the Practice Tips, Anna, a summer student (Hopper v Summervale), and Ben, a first-year associate (Bradley v Tech World), explain their writing choices followed by an experienced lawyer-mentor’s comments on these novice legal writer’s work. The lawyer mentors answer often-asked questions, and elaborate on the memo elements.

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Edit Your Own Work demonstrates a practical, five-layered approach to editing any legal document.  Each layer concentrates on a different editing task to keep students from becoming overwhelmed by editing everything all at once and to maximize editing power. Each layer starts with a brief overview and short exercises that students use to self-diagnose their skills level. Then students can try editing strategies, pre-tested by our students. As they go through the layers, students construct a personal editing checklist that they can modify in the future as they master different editing steps.

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