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Expository Writing Requirement

All students must successfully write under faculty supervision a substantial research paper in which they do the following:

  1. identify a problem or question they believe to be important and demonstrate that importance to the reader;
  2. research and analyze the response or relationship of the legal system to the issues or similar issues, with the research to include primary sources;
  3. evaluate the success or failure of efforts to deal with the problem or respond to the question, if appropriate; and
  4. propose and defend a solution to the problem or present a sensible way of thinking about the question.

Notes


  1. The paper should be of no fewer than 20-25 pages in length and should be clearly written and substantially free of grammar and citation errors.
  2. The Expository Writing Requirement may be fulfilled by writing a paper assigned in a course also used to fulfill another graduation requirement.
  3. Neither the Expository Writing nor the Planning and Drafting requirement may be fulfilled in conjunction with non-law courses approved for Law College credit.

How to Satisfy

Normally, this requirement is fulfilled by completing a course in which such a paper is required. The Expository Writing Requirement also may be satisfied through Directed Research (993), Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law (995) or by a faculty-approved comment or other article written for the Tennessee Law Review (996).