How to Write Better Law Essays
	2nd Edition
	Steve Foster
	ISBN: 9781405873871
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Introduction

Good research and writing skills come with consistent practice. The purpose of this website is to allow you, as students, to practise some of the writing and academic skills highlighted in the individual chapters of the main text. Contained on the website are a number of exercises that can be attempted in order to identify good and bad techniques and to practise your own individual research, evaluation and writing skills. The exercises cover such matters as clear and appropriate writing style, addressing the question, referencing and citation skills, answering problem questions, exam skills and preparing for dissertations. They should be attempted at relevant stages of your law study and the author provides guidance as to when it is best to complete them.

Exercises

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	Preparing and Writing Law Assignments
	Writing Legal Essays: Specific Legal Skills
	Good and Bad Essays
	Answering Problem Questions
	Exam Questions
	Answering Advanced Essays
	All exercises (Zip file)

Exercise answers

	This section provides outline answers to the exercises above. Ensure that you attempt the exercises yourself before consulting the answers. Please note that the answers are not intended to be definitive and with some of the exercises (for example, the essay and dissertation plans) you are provided with one of a number of possible responses.
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	Preparing and Writing Law Assignments
	Writing Legal Essays: Specific Legal Skills
	Good and Bad Essays
	Answering Problem Questions
	Exam Questions
	Answering Advanced Essays
	All exercise answers (Zip file)

Grammar and punctuation exercises

	This section provides you with exercises allowing you to identify errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation.
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	Grammar and punctuation exercises
	Feedback on grammar and punctuation exercises

Answering the question

	This section provides a number of essay and problem questions in a variety of legal areas. They are intended to supplement the examples provided in the textbook and to give examples in a broader range of core legal areas.
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	Answering the question
	Outline answers

You be the marker

	This section is intended to complement Chapter 8 of the textbook on writing advanced essays. Put yourself in the place of an assessor by examining the technique employed in researching and writing advanced assessments and noting the style and techniques of the author. Please note that the substantive law contained in these examples may well be out of date and that you should not use the substance of the pieces in your work. These files have been protected and cannot be printed, edited or content copied to another document.
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	An undergraduate essay on commercial law
	A postgraduate essay on commercial law
	A dissertation on company law
	A short essay exercise on human rights
	All essays/dissertations (Zip file)

FAQ

	This section will host the author's responses to frequently asked questions concerning the research, preparation and presentation of law assessments. Do you have any questions not answered here? Worried about your first assessment at the start of the new term? You can forward further questions to the publishers at: How to Write Better Law Essays@pearson.com and the author will choose the most relevant questions and post them on this website annually (along with the answers). Please note: the author will only choose questions that are general in nature - he will not be able to supply any answers to your actual assessments!
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	September 2007
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