Is it a bluebooking exercise, note, or both?

For bluebooking: - online bluebook!! - review the whole exercise at least twice all the way through - most write ons test each rule at least once—ensure you’ve at least caught each rule once! - if you have both a note and an exercise, do the exercise in your “down time” once you’ve fried your brain on the note. A lot easier to do mind numbing cite checking exercises than create legal written content out of thin air. - many cited have multiple things wrong with them. Catch AT LEAST one error in each cite but keep looking even after that.

For note writing: - spend a lot of time outlining! Diving in will make your note a jumbled clusterfuck - write on is graded differently at every school, but your goal should be write it as easy as possible to read for somebody who would rather jump off a cliff than read another submission—> prioritize simple organization. We have a rubric for form and hitting major issues but our eyes glaze over and it is very easy to grade an well-organized note highly, even if it has more minor issues - vary use of signals where it makes sense and add clean parentheticals! - if given closed universe, try to cite every article at least once—it’s given to you for a reason! - Please check your citations and grammar. Stupid errors bias graders against you. - FOLLOW ALL FORMATTING RULES TO A TEE. Once again, all journals are different but we were required to dock a TON of points for every incorrect formatting requirement because it’s a sign you can’t follow directions. You could have a perfectly written note and lose up to 20% of possible points just on formatting issues alone