Precise and Concise: The Class Daily Briefing (CDB) Exercise (original) (raw)

2015

Abstract

This article will describe, theoretically situate, and analyze five years of implementation of the Class Daily Brief (CDB) exercise in law classes at Georgetown and Ohio State. The CDB trains students to be simultaneously precise and concise in written and oral briefings to clients, principals, supervisors, and other busy and demanding senior leaders. Precision and concision are in tension: be highly descriptive and you write too long, but if you write too short you can lose content. By using the right words and only those words, precision and concision can reinforce each other. The written brief is strictly limited to one or two pages. The oral brief is delivered under variable, realistic, often uncomfortable informal practice conditions -- wherever in real life one might find themselves briefing someone important. These informal practice settings range from a traditional conference room or classroom setting to the telephone, skype, in the hallway, walking down the stairs, in a tax...

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