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Article: Teaching online legal research: LEXIS.
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- March 1, 1994
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In the first of this four-part series about teaching computer-assiste legal research, we concentrated on how to use WESTLAW to research a typical legal issue (ONLINE, November 1993). Most legal research teachers adamantly maintain that it is important for a student to learn manual legal research skills before introducing him/her to WESTLAW and LEXIS. After the legal researcher has developed the skills to navigate West's manual digest system, the next logical step is to transfer that skill to the WESTLAW online environment.
It is also beneficial for the student to become familiar with the "look and feel" of the numerous hornbooks, treatises, directories, ...