Legal Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum

Journal of Business and Technical Communication Apr 1996

Legal Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum

TODD TAYLOR

Abstract

Teachers of professional writing should try to integrate legal literacy into undergraduate writing courses in order to provide students with the kinds of literacies that many instructors and researchers want to promote in classes today. On one level, the almost complete exclusion of legal writing from most undergraduate professional writing classes should be reconsidered. This practice fails to meet the needs of a significant number of students who are considering careers in the legal profession. This neglect allows the legal system to remain a mystery to our students. This article analyzes how current literacy theory supports the integration of legal writing into the undergraduate curriculum and examines some of the relationships between rhetoric and legal writing pedagogy.

Journal: Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published: 1996-04-01
DOI: 10.1177/1050651996010002007
Open Access: Closed
Topics: writing pedagogy graduate education professional writing

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