Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the need for supplemental literacy instruction in high schools
  • Theories and research that informed Argue Like a Lawer design decisions
  • How we used design based research to design Argue Like A Lawyer
  • The pilot year of the design based research project
  • How the Argue Like A Lawyer activity system supported argument writing in one classroom
  • A case study of one student's writing development across the semester
  • Learning from design based research about argument writing in a supplemental literacy course for ninth graders at academic risk.