good seminar paper Forum

[Anonymous User]

what should a good seminar paper look like
The other day our professor put a past seminar paper on reserve and it's like 18 pages of summary: he goes over the statutes of 50 states and gives a summary of the overall trend or something. I would call it a summary, not analysis. If there was analysis, then it's like less than 10% of the whole paper.

I refrain from asking my professor because it would be like doubting his good judgment (well, maybe the rest of the class wrote worse papers, who knows?)

I know it'd be hard to think of something truly original or insightful, given most of what we can think of have been written, if not overwritten. But isn't a good seminar paper supposed to contain more substance?

[Geat27]

isn't a good seminar paper supposed to contain more substance?

Yes.

[Merrill]

what should a good seminar paper look like
The other day our professor put a past seminar paper on reserve and it's like 18 pages of summary: he goes over the statutes of 50 states and gives a summary of the overall trend or something. I would call it a summary, not analysis. If there was analysis, then it's like less than 10% of the whole paper.

I refrain from asking my professor because it would be like doubting his good judgment (well, maybe the rest of the class wrote worse papers, who knows?)

I know it'd be hard to think of something truly original or insightful, given most of what we can think of have been written, if not overwritten. But isn't a good seminar paper supposed to contain more substance?

What does this have to do with legal employment?

[Anonymous User]

Iam OP.
scared of revealing my identity ....

[Anonymous User]

what's so funny is the author of the said paper was on law review and published a LR note (better work for sure).

I thought i missed something - I reread his seminar paper and even footnotes, which are mostly referential, id. not inferential, see id.