{"id":45607,"date":"2017-06-04T23:56:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/?p=45607"},"modified":"2017-06-05T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T14:45:57","slug":"bar-exam-essay-structure-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/06\/04\/bar-exam-essay-structure-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Exam:  Essay Structure Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><u>Akron Law Bar Exam Skills Workshops<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #008080\"><strong>Essay Structure Workshop<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Wednesday, June 7:\u00a0 12:30 PM <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">or<\/span> 5:30 PM &#8211; L 325<\/p>\n<p>Graders spend an average of 2-3 minutes reading each of your essays.\u00a0 Those 2-3 minutes will determine whether you will earn a license to practice law.\u00a0\u00a0 Learn to make your state essays grader-friendly so that those minutes show off your fantastic\u00a0legal\u00a0knowledge!\u00a0\u00a0 [Similar to ALA session\u00a0on essay structure.]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food &amp; informal Q&amp;A starts at 12:30\/5:30; the workshop starts at 1:00\/6:00 PM and will last no more than an hour and a half.<\/li>\n<li>Please bring your computer (if you expect to take the exam using a computer), an electronic copy of any essay you have written OR 2 paper copies of your essay and multiple highlighters of different colors)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/akron.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_0rHuWMHwnp7YvVr\">Sign up here<\/a> so I make sure to bring enough food!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to attend one, or all, of the workshops. \u00a0Questions? \u00a0nlr22@uakron.edu<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;text-decoration: underline\">The rest of the Workshop Series<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wednesday, June 14 &#8211; \u00a0 MPT Organizing Strategies<\/strong>:\u00a0 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 organizing technique taught in this workshop allows you to organize and write your essay in the 90 minute time frame.\u00a0 This is the longest workshop \u2013 it will last approximately 2 hours.\u00a0 [Similar to any ALA class]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, June 20 \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0 Making up the Rules<\/strong>: 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 [Similar to the Spring 2017 ALA \u2013 with different essay snippets for rule generation]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, June 29 \u00a0&#8211; MBE Strategies and Tactics<\/strong>:\u00a0 How to approach an MBE question, and a compilation of strategies from\u00a0 multiple sources for avoiding NCBE sneaky tricks, eliminating wrong answers, and choosing between the last two once you\u2019ve eliminated the others.\u00a0 [Similar to the ALA course \u2013 with a different set of questions]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Monday, July 10 &#8211; \u00a0MPT Exam Simulation<\/strong>:\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 (I will select an essay that is not used by any vendor this year, and was not used in ALA in 2016-17.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saturday, July 15, 12:00 \u2013 5:00 PM:\u00a0 Half-day Hangout<\/strong>:\u00a0 Homemade food (sloppy joes or a summer soup, multiple varieties of hummus, veggies), 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akron Law Bar Exam Skills Workshops Essay Structure Workshop Wednesday, June 7:\u00a0 12:30 PM or 5:30 PM &#8211; L 325 Graders spend an average of 2-3 minutes reading each of your essays.\u00a0 Those 2-3 minutes will determine whether you will earn a license to practice law.\u00a0\u00a0 Learn to make your state essays grader-friendly so that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/2017\/06\/04\/bar-exam-essay-structure-workshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bar Exam:  Essay Structure Workshop&#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],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-45607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bar-examination-information","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\/45607","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=45607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45615,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45607\/revisions\/45615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}