Congratulations on making it to Law School! Now that one hard part is over let’s move on to the next one. Law School has a reputation of being some of the most grueling sleepless four years of any student, regardless of undergraduate, graduate or doctoral program. You read and write and memorize and obsess and cram and pray and stress; the list goes on! Now it is time to write a research paper, and you are not sure where to begin. Some topics are too wide; others are uncharted territory. Perhaps you feel it is common. It is often covered in class and you are worried it would come off as an unoriginal topic. This article will help you navigate some of those issues and help you double down on what you need to do to get the perfect topic for you to write on.

Congratulations on making it to Law School! Now that one hard part is over let’s move on to the next one. Law School has a reputation of being some of the most grueling sleepless four years of any student, regardless of undergraduate, graduate or doctoral program. You read and write and memorize and obsess and cram and pray and stress; the list goes on! Now it is time to write a research paper, and you are not sure where to begin. Some topics are too wide; others are uncharted territory. Perhaps you feel it is common. It is often covered in class and you are worried it would come off as an unoriginal topic. This article will help you navigate some of those issues and help you double down on what you need to do to get the perfect topic for you to write on.

To start with, consider how you will write. The order of your work, citations, and footnotes if at all you will add any. Your professor’s preferences like, how to approach writing a research paper, does he prefer explanative sentences or concise and clear. The title and subtitle you will write, the outline of your work and your points of research. Before all that though, you will need to have a specific topic in mind. What your work will be on. It is advisable to pick a discrete and narrow topic you can write about well than a broad one that will be difficult to conclude. Remember that every paper needs a summary and therefore, it should not be more than half your page. This will be a good indicator that you have grasped the topic well and you can write clearly.

To assist you to come up with an original topic, you can choose two authorities with contrasting views, and as you review them, you are bound to notice a gap in their work or an underlying issue that has not been addressed at all or sufficiently. There you have your topic. You can use this gap to execute a well-written thought out paper. Demonstrating course knowledge is important. Dive into your work and be a self-critic. The devil lies in the details and so you need to be keen and thorough looking into articles, journals, cases and statutes for affirmation and argument to support your work. You must invest your time as it often shows when a student has not taken enough time to revise the first draft or edit revised work. Be open to evaluation and take up offers for feedback from professors and good writers to help you improve your essay. Above all you must be sure of what you want to write before you begin. Otherwise, you risk being a sitting duck waiting to fail! A good student applies major themes where they are relevant and explains the facts well. Making it an interesting read with a logical flow to qualify for an impressive body of work. !