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    Essay Exams - Instructions

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    This document provides instructions for students taking an essay exam on a hypothetical legal case. Students are given laws, rules, and jurisprudence to use in their analysis and are free to include additional materials. They must choose a side to defend and write a trial memorandum of no more than four arguments supporting their position. Students are provided with a draft pad to write a draft and an answer pad for their final response. Quality of writing is emphasized over length. The exam aims to assess students' skills in English communication, identifying relevant facts and legal issues, and constructing persuasive arguments.

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    This document provides instructions for students taking an essay exam on a hypothetical legal case. Students are given laws, rules, and jurisprudence to use in their analysis and are free to include additional materials. They must choose a side to defend and write a trial memorandum of no more than four arguments supporting their position. Students are provided with a draft pad to write a draft and an answer pad for their final response. Quality of writing is emphasized over length. The exam aims to assess students' skills in English communication, identifying relevant facts and legal issues, and constructing persuasive arguments.

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    This document provides instructions for students taking an essay exam on a hypothetical legal case. Students are given laws, rules, and jurisprudence to use in their analysis and are free to include additional materials. They must choose a side to defend and write a trial memorandum of no more than four arguments supporting their position. Students are provided with a draft pad to write a draft and an answer pad for their final response. Quality of writing is emphasized over length. The exam aims to assess students' skills in English communication, identifying relevant facts and legal issues, and constructing persuasive arguments.

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    Essay Exams - Instructions

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    This document provides instructions for students taking an essay exam on a hypothetical legal case. Students are given laws, rules, and jurisprudence to use in their analysis and are free to include additional materials. They must choose a side to defend and write a trial memorandum of no more than four arguments supporting their position. Students are provided with a draft pad to write a draft and an answer pad for their final response. Quality of writing is emphasized over length. The exam aims to assess students' skills in English communication, identifying relevant facts and legal issues, and constructing persuasive arguments.

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    INSTRUCTIONS FOR ESSAY EXAMS: You are presented with a hypothetical case plus research materials (provisions of law

    and jurisprudence) that you may want to use in your work. The laws and jurisprudence accompanying the problems are designed to provide sufficient basis for preparing an excellent trial memorandum or legal opinion. But you are free to include such laws, rules and principles not provided that you feel will enhance your work. Choose the side of the dispute that you want to uphold and defend and prepare a trial memorandum in support of your side. Omit the case caption. Do not write more than four arguments. You have been given, apart from this Test Question, a Draft Pad, and an Answer Pad. Use the Draft Pad for making a draft of your memorandum. This will permit you to freely edit and rewrite your work. Editing and rewriting are essential to sound legal writing. The bells will be rung one hour before the end of the exam to signal the need for you to begin transferring your work to your Answer Pad. You may, of course, prefer to skip the preparation of a draft and write your essay directly on your Answer Pad. That is allowed. Quality of writing, not length is desired. You are free to jot notes or place helpful markings like underlines on the test questions and the enclosed materials. Corrections even on your final essay on the Answer Pad are allowed and will not result in any deduction. Still, it is advised that you write clearly, legibly and in an orderly manner. When the bell rings a second time to signal the end of the exam, your test questions, Draft Pad, and Essay Pad will be collected whether you are finished or not. The time pressure is a part of the exam. You will not be graded for a technically right or wrong answer but for the quality of your legal advocacy. The test is intended to measure your skills in: 1) communicating in English -- 20%; 2) sorting out the conflicting claims and extracting those facts that are relevant to the issue or issues in the case -- 15%; 3) identifying the issue or issues presented -- 15%; and 4) constructing your arguments and persuading your reader to your point of view -- 50%

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