legal writing...
oh my good grief! i'm editing 1L legal writing memos and i'm absolutely appalled by the errors! i can understand the improper cites -- this stuff is completely new to these students. what i cannot understand is how these people got into law school when they can't get subjects and verbs to agree and they put commas after approximately every third word in a sentence!
this was a closed memo assignment, too -- they were GIVEN all the statutes and cases they needed to make their arguments. oy... they're using them so badly, so inefficiently, and sometimes they're applying case law flat-out wrongly! sheesh. and the conclusory statements! holy half-assed, batman!
let this be a lesson for us all: one CANNOT be charged with first degree murder IF NO ONE ACTUALLY DIED!!! hello?!?!? actus reus, anyone???
ugh. it's gonna be a long year for this teaching assistant... i'm gonna ask for a raise.
posted by emily @ Thursday, October 05, 2006
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two words: job security. as long as law school churns out grammatically challenged attorneys, there will always be a home for lawyers who write well -- or competently, for that matter.
seriously -- the commas! it was as if these students were writing and had a glass of commas next to them, and somehow the glass of commas got spilled and the commas got all over their papers and they didn't do an adequate job of cleaning up the mess.
commas commas commas!!!
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