(I recommend keeping your story idea pitch to 300 characters or less. Try reading your work out loud, it is a great test of your editing skills. They are reaching for the stars. When searching for source material, you must take care not to only note the authority which supports your argument and ignore the conflicting authority. I read the key judgements, I took the side of the customer. I have seen hundreds of students writing United Kingdom in the main body of the work with a footnote proudly proclaiming hereinafter denoted as the UK. Theirs was beautifully presented and procedurally correct. You need to explain how recent developments in the law, such as Laws LJs judgment in the 2002 case of Thoburn v Sunderland, and the recent enactment of the European Union Act 2011, by the newly incumbent Conservative/Liberal Democrat alliance government, has attempted to prevent future problems relating to any future similar conflict, and then discuss how effective you believe these measures might be, if used in the future. Remembering that I am only interested in the potential imbalance between the guiding master common law principles of justice, fairness and the common good, I am aware that the individual rights of citizens need to be balanced against the welfare of society as a whole. Are they following your argument without too much trouble? Your bibliography should be long enough to demonstrate a good research methodology, but short enough for you to be able to use the source material properly. Yes, law is a science, but it regulates human behaviour, in all of its genius, unpredictability, and inherent weakness. If the former, then use English instead. Equally, a popular law may even be against the common good, despite its democratic foundation. What a brilliant decision I had made! 0000004995 00000 n A threatening sense of academic duty is not always conducive to sincere reflection, so the hardest part of writing 0000006083 00000 n Adobe d C But isnt that the same as excluding or limiting the losses of the party in breach? Whatever you do, never make lists in any essay. (LogOut/ You are not writing an English or history essay, so keep your flourishes to a minimum. Lists do not have to take the form of an obvious set of numbered bullet points for them to resemble a list they can be a list of principles with each point filling up an entire, paragraph, page, or even a chapter. Stanley Goff began writing in 1995. Dont just confine yourself to the book chapter you are reading which covers your topic area. When I re-read some of the stuff I have written back to myself ages later, I am amazed at how shallow my previous thinking was. Conversely, the discussion-style question is short and seems much more open, in that the student has more freedom to explore wider issues than those raised by the clients. Obviously I was angry. My conclusion was simply to tie together all of the threads and explain how the supporting authority for my argument was stronger than the support for the counterargument. A reflection paper is one of the few pieces of academic writing in which you can get away with using the first person pronoun I. That said, you should still relate your subjective feelings and opinions using specific evidence to explain them. Their papers were proficient and properly written. As far as my recommended approach to answering the questions, I would begin with the story I am trying to tell. Yes, reading and conversations help, but they are not definitive. Reflective writing is an examination of experience and, in many cases, an examination of personal experience. (ii) The will of the 1972 Parliament, who had nothing to overturn the UK courts decisions; and Once you have your main argument constructed, it is then a simple exercise of breaking down the concepts into a clearly structured parts and slotting in the law to support each point. However, this does not mean write colloquially, with local slang terms, as you might when you are relaxed with friends. How does this advance any sort of argument, unless you are explaining why the rule exists or how these elements are relevant to your research hypothesis. 0000003557 00000 n For example, in contract law, I noticed that S.2 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act (UCTA) 1977 barred exclusion clauses which limited liability for negligence leading to death or personal injury, yet did not bar indemnity clauses for the same type of losses. No research is ever wasted, and your essay will glow with thoroughness and rigour. It is the trail of breadcrumbs, shining in the moonlight, with which you need to make sure that you always find your way home again. Every word counts. Never say I only have 1000 words to go, say I only have 1000 words too many. The literary essay may be about any book or any literary topic imaginable. I cannot emphasize enough that murky think pieces essays that jump from point to point with no clear organization fall short of my basic expectation. If you say you prefer a problem question, you are really saying that you find it hard to critically analyse. Oh, and good advice does not always mean telling the client that his chances of winning are excellent. No, research is finding support for your argument. Enjoy what you are writing about. YVAJ 3m=\>kXa;;'N8t}8e"UfW*!OX8^A 41/]6C Ba6!C\G-ZUXWF;1_l O:~gK6pg|ywemdhrtzVXK"t|>>`>&^W"p(q4)qz$ On the bibliography: Do not pack it with sources that you have not integrated throughout the piece. It tells about the big idea or theme of a book youve read. In the first year of my LLB, my very first piece of coursework was on the subject of unfair unauthorised bank overdraft charges, and as a self-employed businessman in my pre-Uni life, I was more than aware of the banks main fee earner the unauthorised overdraft, a means of charging its loyal but desperate customer 100 charge for going a penny over his limit. To improve the quality of your paper, you should write coherently. Inventing a hypothetical client to advise in a discussion essay can be done for every single possible coursework question or scenario. © 2008-2020 Affordable-Papers.net. How to Write a Good Coursework. Copyright 2020 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Education, Explore state by state cost analysis of US colleges in an interactive article, Essay Writing Help: Writing a Reflective Essay, Lynchburg College: Five Steps for Writing Effective Reflection Papers, Kentucky Department of Education: Reflective Writing Handbook, Colorado State University: Reflective Writing and the Revision Process. I think there is some sort of process where the mind blocks too much information on the first pass for fear of overload, and only becomes malleable enough to process deeper information once it has become comfortable at a shallow level. By researching your argument in this way, you will be using law to support you answer instead of to construct it. Do you sound like you are reading out your own work or someone elses? What is the story he is trying to tell? My feedback explained that where I had excelled is that I had actually constructed an argument. The approach is exactly the same, because in both you must construct an argument and support it with law. Reflective writing is an examination of experience and, in many cases, an examination of personal experience. In any case, these are never absolute rules, but simply developed principles. Having a lengthy but poorly integrated list of source material will only detract from your work. <<46f48add3066a4479c7aa63b5221bf2b>]>> Use all of your word limit, but not a word over. Given that think pieces are short, they must be tight. You have now completed your preparatory notes. endstream endobj 8 0 obj<>stream If the court had not found for the individuals, the EU would likely have pressed for sanctions against the UK, which the UK public would not likely have deemed for the common good at that time. In response to St Albans County Councils lobbying of Parliament, the (fictitious) Special Refuse Tax Act 2015 (the Act) has come into force, stating that all non-UK residents who trade on UK soil must pay 100 per trading day for refuse collection. Revise again and again until there is one theme that is consistent throughout the piece, and anything superfluous to that theme is gone. Use academic and legal sources as a mosaic of supporting authority. Your writing should find its own rhythm but not feel contrived and forced. 86 12 How can a sixth form law website demonstrate moral legitimacy, if no-one of any real experience, knowledge or skill has read, reviewed or tested the material? Disclaimer: All the research and custom writing services provided by the Company have limited use as stated in the Terms and Conditions. 2) Read the documents. Your future clients will expect to get the most for their money when they instruct you, by way of written opinions, correspondence, litigation and courtroom advocacy, and so the time to learn how to not to be wasteful is right now. Your argument must not be too subjective, or it will provide no legal certainty for without law to support your answer, your hypothetical client will not be able to make a proper and valid decision on how to run his case, or in some cases to litigate at all. Write the piece like a story. These are both questions you would expect to find at either first or second year level, and are on the subject matter of the constitutional doctrine of parliamentary supremacy. Mine was full of pent-up rage and indignation. I learned the banks standpoint and sought to pick it apart. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. By adhering to stare decisis, the courts justified their decision to protect the individuals; by giving effect to the will of the 1972 Parliament, the court upheld the doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy after a fashion (it was simply the wrong Parliament), even if not strictly adhering to the Doctrine of Implied Repeal; by giving effect to the will of the EU Parliament, the court acted in the common good. To explain the ECJ decisions point, you need to explain how EU supremacy was developed in the ECJ jurisprudence and then accepted by the UK under S.3 ECA 1972. Simply write United Kingdom (UK) the first time in the main body of your work and use UK thereafter. Sorry, but we are going to have to charge you 100 plus 10 for this letter. (LogOut/ How to Write a Yes, you can put in the wrong content, and get a bad grade, but there is no such thing as the correct content. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. ]I1'Tteksr=TV8yLdEA8@@m=,Z It is as if some magic happened to my brain while I was away and made it more objective and somehowcleverer. So, to explain the stare decisis point, you will need to show the evolution of the UK courts decisions following our 1972 membership of the EU and leading up to Factortame, and beyond. My new friends were not so fortunate. After you have written you coursework, re-read the question. (iii) The will of the 1972 Parliament, over that of the 1988 Parliament. Simply rewrite the argument from the opposing view and explain in steps why your argument is sound. Note the language of the law. Meanwhile, jot down any evidence from the documents that you might want to use in the paper. HmVr6>Yv6LN_ aR@RJe >=Z b'x9hd@B/{eJqa!Gb]Gn=O%*5gu>>'K,-*x?vko!I2rKrB, Give your final thought on the matter while leaving the readers with a challenge. If you are given a specific question to consider, be sure to read it carefully. assigned a question, think about what you want to know from the sources before reading. If the side of the argument you have picked is not as strong as the other side, then maybe you picked the wrong side. If you receive feedback that you have not demonstrated enough critical analysis, this really means that you have not constructed an argument. This brings me to the use of inappropriate source material. The use of Latin has now thankfully been mainly phased-out, but some phrases remain. Therefore, think of the different types of sources as all part of the organic common law system that they are not as competing with each other for ascendancy just because they are of a certain type, but more because they are attempting to be morally the most legitimate. When writing, always read your work back to yourself to see whether it sounds like you speaking. Of course, this process takes time. As I have mentioned in my earlier part on Mastering Critical Analysis, a good rule of thumb is to ask yourself what your hypothetical client would pay for the advice written in your essay. This is an important point, because it will ensure that we research the law properly instead of cherry-picking legal principles to support our answer, while wilfully ignoring the relevant case-damaging authorities which dont support our argument. And this is the difference between a good and a bad coursework. ns|eMFF[3(}sF[}wahhg)\ 2' This is not to say that it would have easily justified a departure from the EU via a 1988 parliamentary express repeal of the 1972 Act, but this did not happen, not even after the 1991 House of Lords decision. After all, if you are bored by your piece, can you imagine how your marker feels? The only thing to add here is that it may be easier to demonstrate that statute law has moral legitimacy over academic authority due to a legislation coming through the democratic process far more definitively than case law principles through an unelected judge or academic authority by a mere field expert. The statute will need to be balanced against principles of justice and fairness. How did they become part of the UK constitution? After all, if you are bored by your piece, can you imagine how your marker feels? =EW$TQ8gq2x@-_S@"&fMU.['f">6(x\i(9| *FkJ%ln wNUpX{Wu;b6im$e0-6t1/ d`pM1"d"+ 3L'LZPE:^e7j{miym\la5oLw@O'UUD`#}Oij It is, in fact, the perfect balance between the subjective and the objective; flexibility and certainty; quality and quantity; corrective and distributive justice; mental and conduct elements; in that you are connecting your inner self to the outside world. One of the key controversies is role of the judiciary in the conflict between UK and EU supremacy. And this will be a major failure. As we can see from these two questions, the main difference between them is that the problem question is longer and seems prescriptive, in that there is a specific problem which needs addressing. A coursework is a written or practical work done by student in form of thesis, dissertation, project or paper as a part of course. Writing a coursework is a challenging task, but spending some time and making a great effort will help you shine in front of your tutors and fellow peers. %%EOF I would say, yes. This ensures that you are constantly reviewing your work, taking out the extraneous parts and leaving the key essence. After this opening paragraph, I then broke down the argument and defined each element before explaining where the imbalance lay. nz^{q%O_xSlVwOO0j4o:Sn\;[)\OfnQTGm5pE+t;TS eUA+lep Doubtless, you must include this rule to demonstrate that you have considered the basis and existence of the trust, but dont write it just to show that you know it. Yes, the court seemed to act almost unconstitutionally, but the Prime Minister at that time, Margaret Thatcher, who did not have a reputation for sitting idly while her laws were casually dis-applied, did nothing to overturn the decision by later aiming to introduce new legislation. Order Now. 0000003805 00000 n This means write as the best version of yourself that you can be. The truth is, if you find it hard to do either of these things, then you really have missed the point of the exercise. Yes, the common good may be best demonstrated by legislation, but this is only a popular piece of law. 86 0 obj <> endobj The mechanics will now discipline the writing; but the hard part -- knowing what to write, the actual work of reflection -- is already done. All Rights Reserved. endstream endobj 87 0 obj<> endobj 89 0 obj<>/ProcSet 96 0 R>>>> endobj 90 0 obj<> endobj 91 0 obj<> endobj 92 0 obj<> endobj 93 0 obj<> endobj 94 0 obj<>stream The customer ordering the services is not in any way authorized to reproduce or copy both a completed paper (essay, term paper, research paper coursework, dissertation, others) or specific parts of it without proper referencing. 0000002255 00000 n Anyone can write a 500-word piece on their opinion of a topic. ;?Z'k q$sz~NnSL}e6V[sl6$:%X&EoYm8^lI&t>K~Lp[-mV L"|~&"ha^-*A[sM-~>Eo[4U But this is not really helpful to a first class student. Marks for invention is about as good as it gets in legal essays. For example, in contract law, the client might be a party to the dispute, but in constitutional law, the client may be slightly more far-fetched, in that it might be the incoming ruler of a country looking to write a new constitution, who is concerned about ensuring that good principles are adhered to. (ii) That the European Court of Justice was likely to find in favour of the individual against the UK, and that the UK, through S.3 ECA 1972, had accepted ECJ jurisprudence as binding on UK courts; and A literary analysis essay is an academic assignment that examines and evaluates a work of literature or a given aspect of a specific literary piece. Dont write to word count limits, write beyond them and then pare it back. Writing an autobiography or a personal statement is challenging, so you need to plan it all ahead, make an outline, and write a solid piece. Coursework projects do not resemble essays, research papers, or dissertations. Change), You are commenting using your Google account. At the same time it cannot be too objective, or the balance between justice, fairness and the common good will not be properly struck for without flexibility in each case, principles will harden, ossify and die, because they have stopped leading and serving society in the way that they were intended. endstream endobj 7 0 obj<>stream Procedure is important, because it allows everyone equal access to the law, in the interests of justice, fairness and the common good. I know it sounds strange to say that you should avoid writing mundanely in a legal essay, but every first class piece of coursework is in its own way interesting, thought-provoking and even a little bit exciting. This means consulting the many sources available, from statutes, cases, and academic authority and other materials, but I would start with a decent textbook first to get an overview of the subject area, before moving onto the more specific sources. Can they be easily ignored? {h(-lJQR-/R6#mJF?SQ8 The House of Lords found for the banks. I have devoted a whole part to this already, so I wont replicate it here. !|<3>ffQukS^4lMM>dn,orfH((4eMxa,/{ UpZ%Kv.o!IkN {!RN0Xirmta1gD:UjzphC3WE-TcEhm$H0/ Concision is a good skill to acquire it demonstrates efficiency. Law is as much about following procedure as it is about the substantive issues, for without the balance between procedure and substance, principles of justice, fairness and the common good cannot be applied properly. Your argument must be unfolding, in that your introduction will explain the problem in its widest, broadest parameters after all, you would not expect to explain, in minutiae, the imbalance between the guiding master principles of the common law in the first few paragraphs, but you would expect to explain that the imbalance exists, otherwise the argument will be unstructured and non-compelling. Goff has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of the State of New York. At the heart of critical analysis is balance, and you must demonstrate it every step of the way. Therefore, the House of Lords in Factortame had given effect to: (i) Stare decisis of the previous UK courts decisions; How can the banks justify 100 loss for a penny of unauthorised overdraft? Simply use the relevant law to support your argument. Sentences are short and punchy. The standard of your writing should be authentic but aspirational. Your argument must be logical, in that in each stage you must demonstrate cause and effect. What comes in the middle is legal and academic authority. We have word limits to ensure that everyone is treated equally, and we insist on the uniform use and style (in law, usually Oxford, but in some cases, the Harvard system) of footnotes and bibliography to ensure consistency in approach. A first class student is not bothered about such banalities as making sure they havent forgotten an element of the essay. That way, no matter which part you start drafting, you have an idea of the whole. You should be excited about the topic you are writing about. The Doctrine of Implied Repeal guarantees parliamentary supremacy by ensuring that the judiciary interpret later Acts which conflict with an earlier Act on similar subject matter, as prevailing over the earlier ones. It is clear, accessible and logical. If you say that you prefer an essay format, you are really saying that you find it hard apply the law. Most importantly, the central argument point must be identified. Imagine a well-informed layperson reading your essay. Making a compelling argument is about having the facts to back it up. This should fill you with a sense of freedom, rather than dread, but rest assured that simply writing everything you know about the conflict between UK and EU supremacy, without constructing an argument which addresses the deeper issues of the balance between justice, fairness and the common good, will not get you a first class answer. As a crusader for the little man, I felt that the reason I had given up my thriving business in favour of serving society, was vindicated so early in my law degree. This is often an essential requirement for being awarded a degree and counts towards successful completion of the course. On investigation through the body of UK and EU case law, I noted that the House of Lords decision was based on the following three factors: (i) That Lord Denning in the 1980 case of MacCarthys v Smith had set the precedent that because of the UKs voluntary acceptance of Treaty law, EU law was supreme in certain limited areas, and that only express repudiation of the Treaty was likely to redress the balance back in favour of UK supremacy; You need to present the best sides of your personality, but stay honest at the same time, so think it through. Plan carefully, make a thorough research and you will be able to write a successful coursework. You should be using them to show support for assertions, but not to simply demonstrate that you are using them. This comes before anything else. That excitement will carry over in your tone and make your writing sound better overall. How to write a coursework essay is a highly asked question since a number of steps have to be taken to get a good-quality essay. Obviously this was complete injustice, and the banks knowing that contract law precluding them from charging penalties, opted to call these charges a pre-liquidated damages clause instead, which are allowed as a form of genuine bank loss triggered by the customers breach of contract. IR7 xSb After orienting the reader, tell the story; then explain what you learned from the story. Without a client in mind, this exercise would be impossible to perform. Pierre and Yves, from Calais in France, run a bakery stall on Wednesdays in St Albans market, and have just received a payment demand under the new Act. As we were only a few weeks into the first year at that time, my fresh out of school classmates had not yet had the displeasure of receiving an innocuous-looking envelope with their banks logo on the top left corner, explaining how their mobile phone bill had been kindly paid by the bank despite their being a pound or two deficit on the account balance. A good lawyer will always explain what the merits and hindrances of the case are, so that the client can make an informed choice of how to run the case, or even whether to litigate at all. After orienting the reader, tell the story; then explain what you learned from the story. Having investigated what the factors are that give rise to the controversy, and have a vague idea what the parameters of the debate are, you will now have to structure your argument in the most effective way to be able to convey your argument properly inside the tight parameters of the coursework template. In every essay, there will be a single central point. endstream endobj 3 0 obj<> endobj 4 0 obj<>/XObject<>/ProcSet 96 0 R>>>> endobj 5 0 obj[6 0 R 7 0 R] endobj 6 0 obj<>stream I gained huge marks for inventiveness thanks to my wider reading. Research does not mean reading books and other source material to get an idea of what your argument should be. 0000003318 00000 n On the issue of word limits: Word limits are usually set quite tightly to the subject matter to ensure that the submitted work is concise, to the point and relevant. It can be a short-short story, a short story or a long story. Why? Coursework is an academic paper which is usually used to assess many GCSE and A-level subjects. Many students still cite sixth form law websites, blogs and law teaching forums, despite assurances that these are inappropriate and will detract from the work. Discount code7DISCOUNT With dread, your feedback is peppered with the comment Too descriptive. The language of the law has developed over many years to encompass changes in society. Students are often given mandatory writing assignments that require reflection. Every Wednesday, a special market is set up, with stalls owned by French nationals selling various authentic French foods, clothes and collectibles. A writ of habeus corpus is preferred to the lesser, modern bring me the body, but inter alia should be lost in favour of the modern among other things.