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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Checklist for Student Papers

Jessica Mathewson-Library Media Technical Asst.-jessica.mathewson@law.csuohio.edu | June 17, 2008 - 13:58

Three law professors from the University of Missouri at Kansas City have put together a checklist for students to utilize when editing their papers. The paper, Training Independent Learners published on SSRN, follows the independent learning theory. The theory contends that students learn best when they learn self-assessment. The checklist is broken into categories such as: organization, writing and plagiarism. Within each of these categories is a list of questions that students check off (sign and date) as they are completed. This step by step process makes the proofreading process more manageable. Professors' reviews of drafts may be cursory and spell check doesn't catch it all, so students must engage in thorough self-editing.


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Facebook & Faculty

Jessica Mathewson-Library Media Technical Asst.-jessica.mathewson@law.csuohio.edu | June 17, 2008 - 11:35

There is an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a faculty member discovering and using Facebook . She speaks of the delights in discovering more about her students and how that in turn helps her be a better mentor. On the flip side, when grades come out and some do not do as well as others, the students' Facebook walls may not be very complimentary. And all of this in real time...no waiting until the next semester.

Would you invite your student/professor as a friend?


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Look Ma, No Grades!

Jon Elias- Library Media Technical Asst.- jon.elias@law.csuohio.edu | June 17, 2008 - 09:22

I'm sure some of you have read a story about a college dropping letter grades all together. The most recent school to start this trend is Stanford Law. While this may be good for the Jon Elias or Maurice Clarett's of the world, it does bring up some issues of interest. Issues of interest, hey that sounds pretty good. The best, and maybe the worst, part of the article is that students at Stanford Law will now receive a four course meal of grades.

Honors = Super intelligence
Pass = I'm still smarter than most people
Restricted Credit = Hey at least I didn't fail
No Credit = Thanks a lot Sam Adams, you ruined my semester...again

Read the entire article and then talk amongst yourselves. I now have to go argue that the Indians shouldn't trade C.C. just yet. Hey, they are only 5 and a half games out of first!


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