Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

1. Drafting against the criteria
2. Tutor and peer feedback
3. Improving the final submission
4. How to Start Writing a Law Essay to Get a First (Tips from a Law Lecturer)
5. Feedback and evaluation

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Define what a contract is.
• 1.2 Outline how to make a legally binding offer and acceptance.
• 1.3 Identify how offer and acceptance may be withdrawn.
• 1.4 Explain how to enforce a contract.
• 1.5 Explain the terms invitation to treat and the intention to create legal relations.
• 2.1 Outline statutory express terms.
• 2.2 Explore how representation is different from a term.
• 2.5 Explore how terms may be implied in common law.
• 2.3 Explain how terms can be incorporated into a contract.
• 2.4 Explain contract conditions, warranties and innominate terms.
• 2.6 Evaluate the validity of exclusion clauses.
• 3.1 Outline various types of contractual mistakes.
• 3.2 Outline different types of misrepresentation.
• 3.3 Explain how a contract can be discharged.
• 3.4 Explain how lack of capacity, illegality and public policy may void a contract.
• 3.5 Summarise how undue influence and duress may void a contract.
• 4.1 Outline the effect that a breach has on a contract.
• 4.2 Describe the role of equitable remedies in contractual breach.
• 4.3 Discuss types of contract breach, including anticipatory and repudiatory breach.
• 4.4 Explain the meaning of damages in relation to contracts.
• 4.5 Analyse what remedies are available for breach of contract.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

Videos

• How to Start Writing a Law Essay to Get a First (Tips from a Law Lecturer) · YouTube · 1stClassLLB · 10 min · for registered students
• Feedback and evaluation · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students

Further resources

• Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–94 · for registered students
• Writing for Success, ch. 8.1–8.3: Prewriting, outlining and drafting · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 281–318 · for registered students