Drake, Alyson, You Can’t Write Without Research: The Role of Research Instruction in the Upper-Level Writing Requirement (2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2841860

“The majority of law students still meet the ABA’s upper-level writing requirement using a piece of scholarly legal writing. Despite this, most students receive little-to-no formal scholarly research and writing instruction. This article argues that the informal instruction on the scholarly research and writing instruction taking place in law libraries, as demonstrated by the results of a survey of law libraries across the country, should be formalized in one of four ways to ensure that students are receiving the instruction they need to write papers of publishable quality without placing a further burden on the substantive law faculty.”