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    The document discusses recitation in law school. It begins by asking students about their prior experiences with recitation in undergrad. It then explains that in law school, recitation will involve the Socratic method - a dialogue between professor and students aimed at stimulating critical thinking. Recitations will cover large volumes of assigned reading and require comprehensive understanding. The Socratic method prepares students for bar exams and improves issue-spotting skills. The document provides tips for success in recitation, including proper preparation through reading, note-taking, and issue-spotting practice. It also outlines how to structure answers in a direct, three-paragraph format.

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    The document discusses recitation in law school. It begins by asking students about their prior experiences with recitation in undergrad. It then explains that in law school, recitation will involve the Socratic method - a dialogue between professor and students aimed at stimulating critical thinking. Recitations will cover large volumes of assigned reading and require comprehensive understanding. The Socratic method prepares students for bar exams and improves issue-spotting skills. The document provides tips for success in recitation, including proper preparation through reading, note-taking, and issue-spotting practice. It also outlines how to structure answers in a direct, three-paragraph format.

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    Recitation in Law School

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    Recitations in Law School

    Atty. Ahmad Rais T. Undug


    AdZU/XU Law Batch 2018
    Status Quo
    • What is your current concept of recitation?
    • How were recitations conducted in your
    undergrad years?
    • What do you like/dislike about it?
    Current Ideas
    • What do you know about how recitations are
    conducted in law school?
    Recits v 2.0
    • What?
    – “The Socratic Method”
    • How conducted?
    – Based on asking and answering questions to
    stimulate critical thinking and draw out ideas and
    underlying presuppositions
    The Socratic Method
    • In the Socratic Method, the classroom
    experience is a shared dialogue between
    teacher and students in which both are
    responsible for pushing the dialogue.
    • Stanford University Professor Postings
    Why the Socratic Method
    • The Socratic professor aims for "productive
    discomfort," not panic and intimidation. The
    aim is not to strike fear in the hearts of
    students so that they come prepared to class;
    but to strike fear in the hearts of students that
    they either cannot articulate clearly the values
    that guide their lives, or that their values and
    beliefs do not withstand scrutiny.
    • Stanford University Professor Postings
    How often?
    • Every single meeting
    • The entire duration of the class, in a vast
    majority of instances
    Volume of work
    • Hundreds of cases at a time
    • Requires hours and hours of reading
    • Requires cooperation
    Socratic Method v. Undergrad Recits

    • No surface level questions and answers


    • Deeper level of understanding
    • No bluffing
    • Your profs will know if you did not read
    Effects
    • Ensure reading of cases and other
    assignments
    • Ensure comprehensive understanding of law
    • Prepare you for proper way of answering Bar
    questions
    • Improve your issue-spotting skills and capacity
    for brevity
    Developing and Improving Recit Skills

    • READ
    • READ
    • READ
    Developing and Improving Recit Skills

    • Know your appropriate study techniques


    – Highlighting
    – Rewriting
    – Underlining
    – Tables
    – Marginal notes
    Developing and Improving Recit Skills

    • Come to class with condensed notes


    – Index card / small pieces of paper
    – Bulleted
    – Only important details
    Developing and Improving Recit Skills

    • Digest
    • DIGEST PROPERLY!
    • Cooperate
    – Divide cases as a class
    – Make sure you do the work assigned to you
    – Rise as one, fall as one
    Developing and Improving Recit Skills

    • Work on your ISSUE-SPOTTING skills


    – What laws/body(ies) of law apply to this factual
    situation?
    – What subject applies to which issue?
    – Compartmentalize
    Developing and Improving Recit Skills

    • Be direct to the point


    • Don’t beat around the bush
    – Watch video
    How to answer
    • Answer the same way you would answer
    written exams
    – Three paragraph/sentence rule
    • 1st para: affirmative or negative or qualifying statement
    of the question
    • 2nd para: legal basis
    • 3rd para: application of the legal basis to the facts of the
    case
    Additional Tips
    • Listen to the prof’s follow-up questions, if any,
    and take cues from them
    • Answer confidently
    • Brevity
    How to deal with the fallout
    • What happens inside the room stays inside
    the room
    • Have healthy coping mechanisms
    • Have a life outside law school
    THANK YOU AND GOOD
    LUCK

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