Professor Susan Pollvogt's tips for legal essay questions

1. When reading prompts/packets, read the law before the facts, to enhance issue spotting.
2. For application sentences, use rule statements, and replace the general terms with specific facts.
1. (If you get the comment "too conclusory" on your test, you are probably not structuring your application statements correctly.)
3. Professors' answer sheets (point sheets) contain statements that get a certain number of points if included. Every statement on the point sheet is a rule statement, application statement, or conclusion statement.