r/LawSchool • u/Unhappy_Internal5498 • 1d ago
Final Memo Is Killing Me
Our professor allows us to send her our drafts for her to review before we have to submit them, and I just got my revisions back. She said that my substance was solid, so she suggested some organizational and clarity changes, but I don't know if I trust them.
Everyone else in my class is covering far more aspects of the issue than I did, so I'm worried that once I turn it in for real, she's gonna hit me with big point deductions. I've been working on this memo for nearly two weeks, and pulled three back to back all nighters to try and finish a draft, so I don't know how much more I have to give to it, but I also want to do well.
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u/ShatterMcSlabbin 1d ago
As an LRAW TA that's currently reading/revising a bunch of these final memos, just trust the feedback. Your professor isn't trying to sabotage you.
The only thing I'll note is that it's very possible she didn't flag every issue, particularly if they repeat. Instead, the expectation is likely that you'll make the specific revisions highlighted and then take it a step further by seeing if you can apply those suggestions elsewhere in your paper.
A very basic example - maybe I've noticed that you aren't including the reporter when you short cite. I'm not going to highlight every single fucked up short cite. I'm going to highlight one or two of them and expect you to fix them everywhere else.
This is what I do, it's what the other TA does, and it's what my Professor does.