Have been graded and will be available outside my office after 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Sample answers will post in the morning.
Review your paper and the comments and compare with the sample. I am happy to meet about any questions once you have looked at everything.
A few general comments common to all:
• The application part of your analysis must get into detail. If you have specific allegations or documents, you must discuss them with some specificity. Get beyond "the documents" or "the allegations" to speak individually and precisely. Especially if the documents are different and raise different analysis.
• Answer the question asked, considering the call of the question and the role you were told to play. If you are the judge, don't say "the court should find." If you were told to argue what should happen with the documents, don't discuss whether the motion should be granted. This is clear from the Semester Assessments doc on the Blog.
• Please check the blog post on writing and citations and "Semester Assessments," which provide information about writing, formatting, cover sheets, etc. You must provide a Blind ID # in lieu of your name (hence it being called a "Blind" ID #).
• It should be clear but: Essays are assigned at the end of a topic or issue. No essay will be assigned until after we have finished a subject or issue. And while essays may hearken back to prior stuff, it will not touch on something we have not finished entirely.
• You have all the information to do clear and firm analysis and draw a clear and firm conclusion. If your analysis depends on speculation (the court might do X), you're going down the wrong path.
