{"id":35931,"date":"2016-06-15T02:34:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=35931"},"modified":"2016-06-15T02:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T06:34:43","slug":"bar-exam-basics-workshops-organizing-your-mpt-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/06\/15\/bar-exam-basics-workshops-organizing-your-mpt-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Exam Basics Workshops:  Organizing your MPT &#8211; Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>\u00a0<u>Bar Exam Basics &#8211; a Series of Workshops<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>College of Arts and Sciences Room 136<\/strong> <strong>(for this workshop)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>College of Arts and Sciences Room 144 (for the last three workshops)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Each workshop is offered at 1:30 and 5:30, with the exception of the Half-Day Hangout<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Wednesday, June 15<\/strong><strong>, PM-\u00a0Organizing Your MPT<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The concept of an MPT is easy \u2013 you are provided all of the materials, and don\u2019t need to remember 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 any ALA class, updated to include less formal outline techniques &amp; case summaries]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080\">Food &amp; informal Q&amp;A starts at 1:00 for the 1:30 workshop and 5:30 for the 6:00 PM workshop<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/SE\/?SID=SV_8jEJfw593JOCJG5\"><strong>Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><strong> so I make sure to bring enough food!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #993366\"><strong>The rest of the Workshop Series + the Half-Day Hangout<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, June 21 &#8211; <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">MBE Strategies and Tactics<\/span> (CSA 144)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Monday, June 27 &#8211; \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Making up the Rules<\/span> (CSA 144)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, July 5 &#8211; \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">MPT Exam Simulation<\/span><\/strong> <strong>(CSA 144)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday, July 16, 12:00 \u2013 5:00 PM:\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Half-day Hangout<\/span> (Law school)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #800080;text-decoration: underline\">Not quite an alumni but want a head start?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are nearly ready to take the bar exam (graduating in December or next May) and just want an early start, feel free to come join the fun (and food)! \u00a0 \u00a0For the essay workshop, bring any multi-issue hypothetical you have written for any\u00a0subject (response and preferably the prompt as well) &#8211; or try your hand at writing\u00a0an actual Ohio essay and bring it (you can find tons\u00a0at the bottom drop-down box <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/AttySvcs\/admissions\/barExam.asp\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Questions? \u00a0Contact Nancy Reeves, Director of Academic Success, at <a href=\"mailto:nlr22@uakron.edu\">nlr22@uakron.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Bar Exam Basics &#8211; a Series of Workshops College of Arts and Sciences Room 136 (for this workshop) College of Arts and Sciences Room 144 (for the last three workshops) Each workshop is offered at 1:30 and 5:30, with the exception of the Half-Day Hangout Wednesday, June 15, PM-\u00a0Organizing Your MPT The concept of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2016\/06\/15\/bar-exam-basics-workshops-organizing-your-mpt-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bar Exam Basics Workshops:  Organizing your MPT &#8211; Today!&#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":[157,1],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-35931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bar-examination-information","category-uncategorized","tag-academic-success-programs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35931","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=35931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35943,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35931\/revisions\/35943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}