PA 335 - TRIAL AND COURTROOM PRESENTATION

WELCOME TO CLASS!

* Instructor: Laura Catron

* Contact: lcatron@kaplan.edu

* 478-955-6595 call or text anytime.

* I live in the Central Time Zone so keep that in mind if calling!

SYLLABUS – class reference guide

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

• Discussion Board: 3-4 posts on at least three different days during the unit week (rubric under docsharing)

• Seminar: If you miss it, make up by listening to recording, write a 2-3 page summary, e-mail it to me before next seminar for full credit

• Written assignments: due on the last day of the unit week (Tuesday nights).

• Late submissions: Contact me with your reason, I am a huge fan of open communication. Do not just submit it late without communicating with me. Papers over a week late automatically have 5% deducted

DISCUSSION BOARD

• 1. Post 3-4 times a week.

• 2. Graded on how substantive and in-depth responses are.

• 3. Try to get into a legal discussion with your classmates even if the topic isn’t directly related to the posted question. THINK!!!

ATTEND SEMINAR

• * Live class – once a week

• * Can ask questions and get my answer

• * Real life examples

• *Additional information not in reading

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

• There are 5 Writing Assignments. Units 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9

• Kaplan Writing Center – Great resource for help with your papers.

• Start on assignments ahead of time

PLAGIARISM

The Indiana University website on plagiarism defines it as "using others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.” (notice how I told you where I got it and put quotation marks around the words?) They go on to offer the following advice on avoiding plagiarism:

“To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use

• another person's idea, opinion, or theory;

• any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge;

• quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or

• paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.”

• So let's tease out some of these. We'll talk about "common knowledge" in a minute, but let's look at paraphrasing. What is a paraphrase?

ATTEND SEMINAR

• * Live class – once a week

• * Can ask questions and get my answer

• * Real life examples

• *Additional information not in reading

Let’s Take a Tour of our Classroom

Open up our course home page

COURTROOM LAYOUT

• The Judge

COURTROOM LAYOUT

The Witness

COURTROOM LAYOUT

• The Jury

COURTROOM LAYOUT

• The Lawyers

Great Courtroom Dramas to Watch

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• 12 Angry Men

• John Adams, Part I (Boston Massacre trial)

• LA Law

• …And Justice for All

Need help with anything? Email, text or call me at 478-955-6595

Next Week: Unit 2

Electronic Courtrooms