Begin with the middle section: • Review everything for your conclusion. • Write the final introduction last, ensuring that the body of the text and your conclusion does what your introduction says they will do, and finalise your conclusion. (8) Stage 8: write the final version of the essay During the review: • consider whether there is a need to search for any more texts; • pay particular attention to the conclusion and thoughts on the introduction; • also review the argument. Is there evidence to back it up? Have opposing views been dealt with? This method can also be more immediately represented as a flow chart (see Figure 8.1, below). As you will have by now noted, writing is not a passive act. In Chapter 9, this method for writing an essay will be demonstrated by applying it to Question 4, above. 8.5 METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF ANSWERS TO PROBLEM QUESTIONS It is now appropriate to turn attention away from essay towards the other major type of written assessment that is found on a law programme—the problem question. Problem questions can only be set around substantive law topics as they rely on the consideration of cases, common law, legislation and increasingly aspects of European Community law. These questions often also require knowledge of how an issue has been dealt with in another common law jurisdiction. Students are expected to competently handle rules and use the doctrine of precedent in practice. It is possible for some examination papers to be 50–75% problem questions, or perhaps even more. Even in courses that seem to be more discursive (such as English legal system) it is possible to construct some problem questions concerning police powers for example, and in constitutional and administrative law (now often called public law), there can be problem questions in relation to the administrative aspects of the course. This section discusses in detail what the function behind problem questions may be and with that in mind looks at moving towards a strategy for answering problem questions.

DOI link for Begin with the middle section: • Review everything for your conclusion. • Write the final introduction last, ensuring that the body of the text and your conclusion does what your introduction says they will do, and finalise your conclusion. (8) Stage 8: write the final version of the essay During the review: • consider whether there is a need to search for any more texts; • pay particular attention to the conclusion and thoughts on the introduction; • also review the argument. Is there evidence to back it up? Have opposing views been dealt with? This method can also be more immediately represented as a flow chart (see Figure 8.1, below). As you will have by now noted, writing is not a passive act. In Chapter 9, this method for writing an essay will be demonstrated by applying it to Question 4, above. 8.5 METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF ANSWERS TO PROBLEM QUESTIONS It is now appropriate to turn attention away from essay towards the other major type of written assessment that is found on a law programme—the problem question. Problem questions can only be set around substantive law topics as they rely on the consideration of cases, common law, legislation and increasingly aspects of European Community law. These questions often also require knowledge of how an issue has been dealt with in another common law jurisdiction. Students are expected to competently handle rules and use the doctrine of precedent in practice. It is possible for some examination papers to be 50–75% problem questions, or perhaps even more. Even in courses that seem to be more discursive (such as English legal system) it is possible to construct some problem questions concerning police powers for example, and in constitutional and administrative law (now often called public law), there can be problem questions in relation to the administrative aspects of the course. This section discusses in detail what the function behind problem questions may be and with that in mind looks at moving towards a strategy for answering problem questions.

Begin with the middle section: • Review everything for your conclusion. • Write the final introduction last, ensuring that the body of the text and your conclusion does what your introduction says they will do, and finalise your conclusion. (8) Stage 8: write the final version of the essay During the review: • consider whether there is a need to search for any more texts; • pay particular attention to the conclusion and thoughts on the introduction; • also review the argument. Is there evidence to back it up? Have opposing views been dealt with? This method can also be more immediately represented as a flow chart (see Figure 8.1, below). As you will have by now noted, writing is not a passive act. In Chapter 9, this method for writing an essay will be demonstrated by applying it to Question 4, above. 8.5 METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF ANSWERS TO PROBLEM QUESTIONS It is now appropriate to turn attention away from essay towards the other major type of written assessment that is found on a law programme—the problem question. Problem questions can only be set around substantive law topics as they rely on the consideration of cases, common law, legislation and increasingly aspects of European Community law. These questions often also require knowledge of how an issue has been dealt with in another common law jurisdiction. Students are expected to competently handle rules and use the doctrine of precedent in practice. It is possible for some examination papers to be 50–75% problem questions, or perhaps even more. Even in courses that seem to be more discursive (such as English legal system) it is possible to construct some problem questions concerning police powers for example, and in constitutional and administrative law (now often called public law), there can be problem questions in relation to the administrative aspects of the course. This section discusses in detail what the function behind problem questions may be and with that in mind looks at moving towards a strategy for answering problem questions.