LAW 535 Environmental Law

This guide includes information on how research affects writing, including developing the research question which will be central to your writing and how to better understand assignment requirements. It also describes how to reading a scholarly article, which is important for gathering the evidence to be used in your research paper and for saving you time reading that you can then devote to writing. This guide also includes information on specific writing tasks, such as writing an annotated bibliography

Legal writing can be very different from other types of academic and professional writing. This guide contains resources on legal writing, including ebooks that cover the major types of legal writing, formatting, key elements, and the writing process.

This guide teaches an approach to academic writing that draws on Indigenous teachings.

Students can receive TRSM writing and language support through drop in help, appointments, and workshops.

Writing and Language Support are available through Student Life and Learning. For writing help, drop in and scheduled academic writing help appointments are available, where students can get personal advice on academic writing. This support centre also offers writing workshops, group writing sessions, and English as a Second Language programming.

This short text by Julie Novkov at University at Albany, the State University of New York, describes how to read case law.

This short guide covers the common elements of scholarly articles and how to read an article quickly before reading in depth for a more thorough and focused understanding.