The Opinion as Essay, The Judge as Essayist: Some Observations on Legal WritingOne currently popular theory about lawyers is that rather than killing them as Shakespeare once suggested, we should be enrolling them in composition classes. The problem of awkward, impenetra-ble legal prose has been...
Opinion-based essays: Agree or Disagree Opinion Essays Hello ladies, What is an opinion essay? Is it the same as a descriptive report? Decide which is the best answer: A 1. You only write about facts and you must not give examples from your own life or state your opinion 2. You ...
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one...
Writing a 5-Paragraph Essay Read examples of opinion writing together as a class so students can see what each of the 5 paragraphs are and what they should look like. Write an opinion essay together as a class. Provide a graphic organizer and a list of topics for students to write about...
Kerr† This essay is designed to help new law students prepare for the first few weeks of class. It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and what law students should look for when reading them. I. WHAT'S IN A LEGAL OPINION? When two people ...
The essay on Jewish food in Iranian cuisine is particularly enlightening, especially since"Jews have lived in Iran for more 2500 years, making Iran's Jewish community the oldest outside of Israel." I wrote Ms. Shafia and asked her for a specifically Jewish Persian recipe for Hanukkah which ...
And just last month, late December: I had sent out an essay in a satirical vein, pointing up the absurdity of the way Washington is carrying on the Afghanistan war in order to defeat "terrorism." (You can click to it here: http://www.theshalomcenter.org/node/ 1676) Several folks ...
For each passage I need 5 multiple-choice questions (each with 5 answer options), 20 closed questions, 15 open and opinion-based questions and 5 essay questions. (You should provide the answers for the multiple-choice and closed questions.) None of the questions should be long-winded or ...
As we were putting together this essay, our colleague Summers-Stay, who is good with metaphors, wrote to one of us, saying this: "GPT is odd because it doesn’t 'care' about getting the right answer to a question you put to it. It’s more like an improv actor who i...
Your first expository essay in this class was intended to expose your understanding of a certain topic. It used evidence, examples, and/or anecdotes to explain a memorable time, place, or event. It was not a pure narrative (a story), nor a pure argument, but it was based on a fixed ...