Knowing what NOT to include!

Either directly or indirectly your professor will often tell you what not to include in your essay answer.  Avoid discussing whtat the professor tells you not to discuss.

Professor Elizabeth Stillman (Suffolk University Law School) refuses to wish her students "good luck" as they shuffle down the corridors toward their final exams. “I would say good luck," she tells them, "but you don’t need it because you have worked hard to know the material and you know how to take this exam.”

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When you take an exam ... or better yet, as you practice exam-answering, you should plan to spend about one-third of your time allotted for each essay answer as pre-writing time. As you proceed through the pre-writing phase, it’s important not to make up your mind immediately about who’s right and who’s wrong—who will win and who will lose on any given issue about which there may be more than one viewpoint. Remember, no case gets to a trial court unless there are two or more “sides” with persuasive positions. Cases are never presented in court by just one side.

In law school, as well as in the practice of law, you will have many opportunities to demonstrate your skills at many types of writing. One type of writing you will need to use from time to time is expository writing. Expository writing is a rhetorical mode of writing in which the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader.