Produced by Charles Calleros
Rules for Monica is a videotape that helps students prepare for and take essay exams. It is intended to be used in a workshop in which the instructor leads students through an overview of case analysis and synthesis, outlining, and essay exam-taking. The short videotape features a mother and daughter who act out "cases" that form the basis for incremental parental rule-making. The videotape encourages students to analyze each case, to synthesize each with previous cases, to restate the applicable rules as they become refined with each new case, to outline the rules and illustrative cases, and to apply this knowledge to an exam question. The familiar, nonthreatening, nonlegal context of this exercise allows students to focus their attention fully on the analytic skills that they later can apply to legal problems and exam taking.
For a more detailed description of Rules for Monica, its background, and intended use, click here.
To obtain a copy of Rules for Monica, contact Charles Calleros at charles.calleros@asu.edu.
