{"id":32611,"date":"2016-02-07T23:43:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=32611"},"modified":"2016-02-07T23:43:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T04:43:47","slug":"bar-exam-workshops-this-week-mpt-outlining-making-up-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/02\/07\/bar-exam-workshops-this-week-mpt-outlining-making-up-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Exam Workshops this week: MPT outlining &amp; Making up the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><b>Tuesday, February 9,\u00a0 6:30 \u2013 8:00<\/b><b>:\u00a0 MPT Outlining Strategies<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">Buckingham 101 &#8211; Food and casual conversation starting @ 6 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">The concept of an MPT is easy \u2013 you don\u2019t need to know anything other than how to write like a lawyer.\u00a0 The execution \u2013 not so easy.\u00a0 The outlining technique taught in this workshop allows you to organize and write your essay in the 90 minute time frame.\u00a0 [Similar to ALA class, updated with\u00a0less formal outline techniques]<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_8CkX4tOOhuTh0VL\">Sign up here &#8211; so I bring enough food &amp; MPT prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><b>Thursday, February 11, 6:00\u00a0\u2013 7:30\u00a0 Making up the Rules<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">Buckingham 101 &#8211; Food and casual conversation starting at 5:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">How to prepare for, and survive, your mind blanking out at the most inopportune time.\u00a0 The rule-making techniques will help you survive the ultimate failure, as well as improving your rule stack for the majority of the time when you remember the rules.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_1NPXhgQUoXIxZgV\">Sign up here &#8211; so I know how much food to order<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\">Remaining workshops in the series<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Tuesday, February 16, 5:30 \u2013 7:30 MPT Exam Simulation<\/b>:\u00a0 Every year, a few foolhardy souls never get around to writing any MPT essays until the morning of the first day of the bar exam.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t usually end well.\u00a0 Take advantage of the opportunity to write an MPT essay under exam conditions.\u00a0<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<li><b>Saturday, February 13, 12:00 \u2013 5:00 PM:\u00a0 Half-day Hangout<\/b>:\u00a0 More food, an informal repeat of any workshops you missed, a chance to ask whatever you haven\u2019t gotten around to asking, I\u2019ll time essays, MPTs, or MBE sets.\u00a0 Whatever (within reason) will help you make it through this final stretch.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><u><\/u>\u00a0(The series of 5 workshops + the Half-day Hangout will be repeated twice leading up to the July exam)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Questions: \u00a0Nancy Reeves, Assistant Director of Academic Success Programs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">nlr22@uakron.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, February 9,\u00a0 6:30 \u2013 8:00:\u00a0 MPT Outlining Strategies Buckingham 101 &#8211; Food and casual conversation starting @ 6 PM The concept of an MPT is easy \u2013 you don\u2019t need to know anything other than how to write like a lawyer.\u00a0 The execution \u2013 not so easy.\u00a0 The outlining technique taught in this workshop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/02\/07\/bar-exam-workshops-this-week-mpt-outlining-making-up-the-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bar Exam Workshops this week: MPT outlining &amp; Making up the Rules&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32611\/revisions\/32619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}