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Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing I (Fall 2010)
Section 6 (Afternoon)
Professor Mark Burge
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ICW Exercise Assignment Instructions
The Interactive Citation Workbook exercises you will complete this semester are a principal
means through which you will learn Bluebook citation form, which will be tested on a citation exam
at the end of the course. You will access and complete the required ICW exercises for this course via
LexisNexis.
To prepare for and complete these assignments, you should do the following:
(1) Whenever you are ready to enter the answers for a particular exercise set, click on the
Bluebook tab at the top of the ICW website, and then click on the particular exercise set
that you want to do (the exercise sets are listed on the left side of your screen).
(2) Register by putting your e-mail address in the “E-mail” space. In the space for
“Primary Professor’s E-mail,” put:
ortiz7355@gmail.com
Leave the space for “Secondary Professor’s E-mail” blank.
(3) Follow the on-screen instructions to complete each exercise set. You must complete all
of the problems within each exercise set.
(4) When you have completed the exercise, click on the “Done” tab.
(5) Print out a copy of your Completion Certificate and keep it for your records as proof that
you did the assignment, in case there is a problem with e-mail.
The e-mail in which your completion certificate is sent will contain a date and time on which it
was sent; that date and time will be used to determine whether your exercise was turned in on
time. For example, if an exercise is due by 10:00 p.m. on September 10, and the e-mail with your
completion certificate for that exercise indicates that it was sent on September 10 at 10:00 p.m.,
then the exercise was turned in on time; if the e-mail says that it was sent on September 10 at 10:01
p.m., then the exercise was turned in late.
In addition to the introductory quiz on how to work the ICW, several citation exercise sets are
assigned to you this semester. For each exercise within the group, you are expected to get at least
70% of the exercise correct. If you get less than 70% on any exercise, you must meet with your TA,
notify me of the meeting, and redo the assignment within a deadline you will be given. For each
exercise that you do not turn in on time, between one and five points will be subtracted from the
citation exam portion of your grade, depending on the degree of lateness. To be eligible to receive
a passing grade in this course, you must make a good faith effort on all citations in all of the
exercises. You must work alone on the citation exercises, and it is a violation of the Code of
Conduct of Texas Wesleyan School of Law to do otherwise.