That's 259 right here.
Apr. 4th, 2008 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenY'know, I've always had the problem of writing enough to meet the minimum word requirements for papers and such. I never had the problem of going over the maximum until I had to write legal briefs. And actually, in legal writing last year, my partner and I were easily under the limit, apparently both being very concise writers. But the limits in federal pretrial lit are just suffocating! I can't cover all the facts and 7 prongs of 2 tests, in 2400 words, especially when he wants lots and lots of repetitive signposting. Everything becomes ridiculously conclusory. I hate having only one paragraph under each heading, and they end up being pretty short paragraphs at that.
I hoped this class would give me some new writing samples -- though I'm still pretty fond of my memo and brief from last year -- but right now I feel like I'd have to double the length of any of them before I felt satisfied giving them to a firm. Otherwise the reader would probably just say, "But you didn't explore any of the issues in any depth at all! How can I assess your legal analysis skills?" And by the time I need any of them as a writing sample, I'm not going to remember enough to be able to flesh out the briefs coherently by any stretch. Bah.
Well, I guess it's a good sign that I don't run out of arguments to write about? (And I don't get anywhere near the "reach" or Rule-11-sketchy arguments.)
I hoped this class would give me some new writing samples -- though I'm still pretty fond of my memo and brief from last year -- but right now I feel like I'd have to double the length of any of them before I felt satisfied giving them to a firm. Otherwise the reader would probably just say, "But you didn't explore any of the issues in any depth at all! How can I assess your legal analysis skills?" And by the time I need any of them as a writing sample, I'm not going to remember enough to be able to flesh out the briefs coherently by any stretch. Bah.
Well, I guess it's a good sign that I don't run out of arguments to write about? (And I don't get anywhere near the "reach" or Rule-11-sketchy arguments.)
