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• how study time is managed, ‘pre-planning the week’; • knowledge of course organisation; • knowledge of the lecture role, small groups timetable; class contact based; or knowledge of distance learning guides if you are taking a distance learning course or a self-study scheme; • the development of powers of concentration. Some students find it physically or emotionally impossible to sit down for two hours or even less and read in a useful, meaningful manner. Concentration is a skill acquired over time; it is a process; • organising a place to study; • setting up filing systems for: handouts; notes made from books, articles or lectures; subject specific problem questions, essay questions and past examination papers; • learning to be a highly competent user of the library facilities (real or Virtual’); • developing computing skills; • developing writing and reading skills (also comes under language and legal method skills); • developing the ability to answer questions (also comes under language and legal method skills). 1.3.1.2 Language usage skills Students need to be competent language users. This involves demonstrating a competency in the following areas: • grammar; • punctuation; • spelling; • vocabulary; • reading (primary texts of law and secondary texts about law); • writing (notes, summaries and extended academic writing); • interpretation of arguments by the analysis of the language in which the arguments are presented. Again, not all of these areas are specifically dealt with in this text but the bibliography makes useful suggestions for further reading. 1.3.1.3 Legal method skills These are skills concerning formal ways of understanding and analysing issues relating to the law. Much of this book is concerned with a few aspects of practical legal method; there are many more.
DOI link for • how study time is managed, ‘pre-planning the week’; • knowledge of course organisation; • knowledge of the lecture role, small groups timetable; class contact based; or knowledge of distance learning guides if you are taking a distance learning course or a self-study scheme; • the development of powers of concentration. Some students find it physically or emotionally impossible to sit down for two hours or even less and read in a useful, meaningful manner. Concentration is a skill acquired over time; it is a process; • organising a place to study; • setting up filing systems for: handouts; notes made from books, articles or lectures; subject specific problem questions, essay questions and past examination papers; • learning to be a highly competent user of the library facilities (real or Virtual’); • developing computing skills; • developing writing and reading skills (also comes under language and legal method skills); • developing the ability to answer questions (also comes under language and legal method skills). 1.3.1.2 Language usage skills Students need to be competent language users. This involves demonstrating a competency in the following areas: • grammar; • punctuation; • spelling; • vocabulary; • reading (primary texts of law and secondary texts about law); • writing (notes, summaries and extended academic writing); • interpretation of arguments by the analysis of the language in which the arguments are presented. Again, not all of these areas are specifically dealt with in this text but the bibliography makes useful suggestions for further reading. 1.3.1.3 Legal method skills These are skills concerning formal ways of understanding and analysing issues relating to the law. Much of this book is concerned with a few aspects of practical legal method; there are many more.
• how study time is managed, ‘pre-planning the week’; • knowledge of course organisation; • knowledge of the lecture role, small groups timetable; class contact based; or knowledge of distance learning guides if you are taking a distance learning course or a self-study scheme; • the development of powers of concentration. Some students find it physically or emotionally impossible to sit down for two hours or even less and read in a useful, meaningful manner. Concentration is a skill acquired over time; it is a process; • organising a place to study; • setting up filing systems for: handouts; notes made from books, articles or lectures; subject specific problem questions, essay questions and past examination papers; • learning to be a highly competent user of the library facilities (real or Virtual’); • developing computing skills; • developing writing and reading skills (also comes under language and legal method skills); • developing the ability to answer questions (also comes under language and legal method skills). 1.3.1.2 Language usage skills Students need to be competent language users. This involves demonstrating a competency in the following areas: • grammar; • punctuation; • spelling; • vocabulary; • reading (primary texts of law and secondary texts about law); • writing (notes, summaries and extended academic writing); • interpretation of arguments by the analysis of the language in which the arguments are presented. Again, not all of these areas are specifically dealt with in this text but the bibliography makes useful suggestions for further reading. 1.3.1.3 Legal method skills These are skills concerning formal ways of understanding and analysing issues relating to the law. Much of this book is concerned with a few aspects of practical legal method; there are many more.
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These are skills concerning formal ways of understanding and analysing issues relating to the law. Much of this book is concerned with a few aspects of practical legal method; there are many more.
