Thursday 21 February 2013

Guide in Writing Legal Essays


Writing law or legal essays can be very difficult. Plain essay writing itself alone can be difficult; what more if you add the factor of doing it in the study field of law. However, you can use some guidelines to help you in writing legal or law essays:
  • Make Sure To Fully Answer the Question – When you write legal essays, it almost always constitute or involve answering a question. Make sure to answer the question or questions fully. See to it that you do not overlook or neglect a portion of each question or any question if more than question is involved. Aside from making sure to address all the queries, you should not overlook a question or a portion of a question because questions include facts which you can use in answering the questions and writing your essay as a whole. Take into consideration all the facts given in the questions so that you will be able to determine whether any legal issues arise from them.
  • Address or Follow Instructions – Legal essays require that the essay writing student must be able to satisfy what is asked by the essay questions or instructions. You do this by following or addressing the instructions involved. Aside from simply following instructions, you should address them. There are instructions or questions which involve more than just merely following them, you must satisfy what they need or asking for impliedly. One example is the instruction to discuss an issue. In law or legal essay writing, discussing an issue is not addressed by writing an argumentative essay which is usually one-sided. You discuss a legal issue by presenting the elements involved in the issue and the sides of the parties involved.


  • Structure Your Legal Essay Properly – See to it that every point of you essay drafting process is geared toward forming a properly structured essay. Balance the weight and appearance of your essay with the introduction taking up more or less 10%, the body of your essay around 75% and the conclusion approximately 15%. Your conclusion should be consistent with your arguments.
Your legal essay writing should fully answer the essay question, address or follow instructions and structured with the 10-75-15% ratio of introduction-body-conclusion. To get help on how to accomplish these, you can approach writing services who does not only give assistance with English essays but all kinds of essays including legal or law essays.

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing tips to write a legal essay. The information will help many novice writers in writing legal essays in the proper format and structure.

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