A Promising Amalgamation

Sara F. Cates
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First-year law students often struggle with the transition from writing as an undergraduate to writing as a lawyer. Incorporating poetry into the first-year legal writing curriculum may assist students in making that transition. The close, active reading poetry requires is a strong scaffold to the critical reading lawyers must undertake. In addition, poetry aptly models how language can create an emotional impact, which is akin to how effective lawyers use language to tell a compelling story on their client's behalf. This Assignment has students read and analyze Gwendolyn Brooks's poem “Boy Breaking Glass,” and then imagine the protagonist of the poem was being criminally prosecuted for his act of vandalism and write the story of the case from both the defense side and the prosecution side. The Assignment enables students to appreciate how a text (or a set of facts giving rise to a legal dispute) can give rise to varied interpretations, and how language and storytelling techniques can be used persuasively.
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法律专业一年级学生在从本科生写作过渡到律师写作的过程中经常会遇到困难。将诗歌纳入一年级法律写作课程可能有助于学生完成这一过渡。诗歌所要求的仔细、积极的阅读是律师必须进行的批判性阅读的有力支架。此外,诗歌恰当地示范了语言如何产生情感影响,这与高效的律师如何使用语言为其客户讲述一个引人入胜的故事有异曲同工之妙。本作业让学生阅读并分析格温多林-布鲁克斯(Gwendolyn Brooks)的诗歌《打破玻璃的男孩》(Boy Breaking Glass),然后想象诗歌中的主人公因其破坏他人财产的行为而受到刑事起诉,并从辩方和控方两方面撰写案件故事。通过这项作业,学生可以了解一篇文章(或引起法律纠纷的一系列事实)如何引起不同的解释,以及如何有说服力地使用语言和讲故事的技巧。
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