4 Legal Research Seminars on TWEN

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image of superhero womanFour of the Law Library Legal Research Seminars are now available on the Westlaw TWEN platform:

* Starting Research with Secondary Sources (12.5 points) –  Why recreate the wheel?  Secondary sources can help you get a leg up on your legal research.  This Seminar examines key secondary sources, and explores best practices for their use.

* Bluebooking (25 points) –  You and The Bluebook can be friends.  Learn to effectively use it for faster legal drafting.  This Seminar explains how to apply citation & style rules, and abbreviation & jurisdiction tables.

* Terms & Connectors Searching (12.5 points) –  Learn powerful key search techniques beyond natural language searching.  This Seminar demonstrates how to construct searches using connectors in Lexis Advance & Westlaw, and you’ll see amazing results.

* Westlaw Overview (12.5 points) – Leap beyond Google and harness the power of this legal research giant.  This Seminar highlights big box & pre-filtered searching, and shows how to print/download/email search results.

To “attend” an online Seminar, simply connect to TWEN and add the “C|M|Law Library Legal Research Seminars Course” to your TWEN Course list.  Then connect to the C|M|Law Library Legal Research Seminars Course, and view a Seminar.  To earn Seminar points, you need to correctly answer 3/4 of the questions on that Seminar‘s quiz, and you can take the quiz multiple times.  Additional Seminars will be added to the TWEN C|M|Law Library Legal Research Seminars Course throughout this Fall 2017 semester.

Of course, you can always ask us questions after doing an online Seminar, but obviously, live Seminars have the advantage of you being able to ask questions in real time.  Also, no Quizzes at live Seminars, and we have a drawing for a $10 Starbucks gift card after each live Seminar!  We have one remaining live Law Library Legal Research Seminar this Fall 2017 semester:

  • KeyCite – November 9, 4:30pm-5pm – Why is a red stop sign different from a yellow flag, and what should you do when you see either one?  You’ll examine components of reports in KeyCite, and discover the power of this Westlaw legal citator service.

Remember, when you earn 100 points – from online and/or live Law Library Legal Research Seminars – you will be awarded a Law Library Legal Research Letter of Recognition, and you can earn multiple Letters of Recognition.

Questions?  Contact Laura Ray, Outreach & Instructional Services Librarian, 216-687-6880, l.ray@csuohio.edu.

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