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Any tips for writing a 30 page law school paper?

I need it to graduate. I am on page 6 and I've been working on it for 2 days . Right now, I've mostly just gone into introductory stuff (thesis, introduction, how the statute I'm analyzing works etc. I haven't really gotten into the meat of my argument and analysis yet).

Before law school, the biggest paper I wrote was 15 pages.

Read a law review article that is 30 pages long. Do what they did, but like, your own work.

ap1987 wrote:Any tips for writing a 30 page law school paper?

I need it to graduate. I am on page 6 and I've been working on it for 2 days . Right now, I've mostly just gone into introductory stuff (thesis, introduction, how the statute I'm analyzing works etc. I haven't really gotten into the meat of my argument and analysis yet).

Before law school, the biggest paper I wrote was 15 pages.

50% of the paper could be footnotes.

Block quotes

Cite every sentence even if it's just id.

Century Schoolbook is a big font and it's SCOTUS approved

DOuble return each paragraph.

Change it so that paragraphs don't hang to the next page.

Add more subtopics.

footnotes are key. add random explanatory footnotes for everything. doesn't have to be just for citations.

Explain background information wherever you can possibly justify doing so (is there a line of cases that applies? start typing), get chatty in footnotes (and give everything a see also, with explanation about everything they say too), spend a significant amount of space addressing counterarguments and shooting them down. Propose a way forward and blab about that. If your paper is well-supported, you'll take up an outrageous amount of space with footnotes without even trying.

Find a really long quote in a case. Paraphrase the quote in the body, then cite to the case and put the quote. Takes up oodles of room.

Also, cite to websites. Many sites have reeeeeally long URLs.

In your footnotes, if the title is long, keep citing the whole thing. Use hereinafter style cites sparingly. Don't use internet citations if possible. Instead use the book citation form and then add an "available at" url for everything you can.

In your text, expand your points by a few words so that each paragraph ends with one word on a new line.

Bikeflip wrote:In your text, expand your points by a few words so that each paragraph ends with one word on a new line.

Had not heard about this before, nice

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