Speed Referencing

Jackie Hanes

When OSCOLA goes speed dating

Image: http://polytical.org/2012/03/so-how-was-poly-speed-dating

The credit

• Part of presentation by Nicola Sales on

• Flipping the Classroom at the

• HEA workshop on Teaching Legal Research

The lesson plan

• Introduction to OSCOLA

• How to reference secondary sources

• Speed referencing secondary sources

• How to reference primary sources

• Speed referencing primary sources

• Saving your word count - short forms & ibids

The activity

• 5 tables

• 1 resource per table

• Students in 5 groups

• 90 seconds to reference

• Move to next table

1. Book 2. Book chapter

5. Website 3. Journal article

4. Newspaper

Library seminar room

Chairs

Me

Afterwards

• Students given answer sheet and self-mark

• Answers in footnote & bibliography style

Questions and answers

• Students ask questions; librarian answers

• Librarian provides feedback to students

Positives

• Active learning: learning by doing

• Active learning: not sitting down

• Proof that referencing can be done quickly

Negatives

• A lot of prep work: materials and room

• Minimum number = 5 students

• Maximum number = 30 students?

• Student motivation / participation

Feedback

• Positive from 1st year LLB to PhD students

The future

• OSCOLA not taught by department

• Would like it included in Intro to Law module

In a seminar

• Format could work in the flipped classroom

• Pre seminar prep: online OSCOLA tutorial

• In seminar: speed referencing activity

• Feedback from academic or librarian