Teaching Law students to write lawsuits: a didactic proposal to improve learning

Abstract

The aim of this study is to put forward a didactic proposal that will help Law students to write better texts of the Lawsuit genre. With that objective in mind, an investigation with a multi-methodological focus was carried out. The main outcome of this investigation is a three part didactic proposal that will help to teach future lawyers how to write the Lawsuit genre. This proposal has the advantage of being based off empirical research on Judicial genres, as well as being developed by an interdisciplinary team with experience in teaching Law students.
Moreover, this proposal can also be considered useful for further training of lawyers that are already practicing. Finally, it is a flexible proposal, since it can be customized for its use with other types of texts from the Judicial genre. The main limitation of this proposal is that it has not been
implemented yet. However, implementation is meant to be carried out in future stages of the study. In regard of future research, it is expected that this proposal can be adapted to other genres.