Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
In this article, Professor Beazley first explains why the predictability of legal documents, legal writers, and legal readers makes an objective method of self-critique particularly useful in legal writing. She then discusses how she designs self-grading guidelines and explains various methods for incorporating the self-grading process into a legal writing course. Finally, she addresses some of the challenges she faced when assigning the self-graded draft to students, and discusses ways to deal with these challenges. In appendixes, Professor Beazley included two samples of self-graded draft guidelines for use in a three-draft Memorandum Assignment, as well as a short illustration of the physical marking that the selfgraded draft requires.
Publication Citation
3 Legal Writing 175 (1997).
Recommended Citation
Beazley, Mary Beth, "The Self-Graded Draft: Teaching Students to Revise Using Self-Critique" (1997). Scholarly Works. 1072.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/1072