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

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Identify the criteria required to conduct legal research.
• 1.2 Define key issues in the proposed research.
• 1.3 Assess the diversity of research methods used in socio-legal studies.
• 1.4 Evaluate ethical dimensions of socio-legal approaches.
• 1.5 Analyse features of the blackletter approach to doctrinal legal research.
• 2.1 Choose a relevant legal research project topic.
• 2.2 Create appropriate research aims and objectives with justification.
• 2.3 Formulate a detailed plan for the research project.
• 3.1 Critically analyse different theoretical approaches to a legal research problem.
• 3.2 Create a structured and thorough critical literature review.
• 4.1 Critically evaluate relevant research methodologies that can be applied to your chosen research topic.
• 4.2 Justify the methodology selected in terms of the research.
• 4.3 Propose suitable techniques to use with quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
• 5.1 Plan a legal research project and present this as a written proposal.
• 5.2 Critically evaluate own skills and knowledge, with reference to the intended outcome of the research project.

Activity

Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

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