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)

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Analyse the mechanics of creating express trusts including the rights of beneficiaries.
• 1.2 Understand the functions of a trust device.
• 1.3 Evaluate and compare types of trust.
• 1.4 Evaluate the nature of respective rights and obligations of the parties trusts.
• 2.1 Analyse the context of commercial transaction into contract with trusts law and equity.
• 2.2 Evaluate the interactions between contract law and trusts law.
• 2.3 Explain how trusts are not bound up with contract.
• 2.4 Critically analyse how trustees limit their liabilities.
• 3.1 Evaluate the powers of a trustee operating a commercial trust and one operating a family trust.
• 3.2 Compare and contrast the rights and duties imposed upon a trustee of a commercial trust or family trust.
• 4.1 Analyse commercial expectations of a trust creditor.
• 4.2 Compare the law relating to trust creditors in other jurisdictions.

Activity

Start with this week’s video, 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

Further resources

• Writing Guide, 3.5: Peer review and using feedback · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 92–94 · for registered students
• Supporting learners' agentic engagement with feedback: a systematic review · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students