Argh am i bloody FRUSTRATED right now. LAWR assignments are just so damned CONFUSING. I think i'm pretty familiar with the cases already; the problem is just how to START doing this email advice thing! I don't know how to combine all the facts of the cases to address a single question, and it's mostly because i'm unsure as to whether i even need to mention the cases which don't really address the issue that i'm given. If i chuck the side points aside, i'd only need about a hundred words or so to finish the assignment. But the word limit is 750, meaning that i need to add in something else. And i don't know what that is.
Basically, i don't know a THING about what is required of me, and my tutor's advice now seems like it doesn't apply at ALL to the situation i'm currently in. I've barely typed out a line or two, and it's been a few HOURS already. Mostly, i've been spending that time moaning on the floor and rereading the cases with a completely blank mind. URGH.
I must say that, just like the case summary that we had to do a couple of weeks ago, LAWR homework (which's supposed to teach you how to do lawyer work - other subjects just teach mostly legal theory) is akin to a bad swimming instruction. It's like teaching you how to swim by vaguely demonstrating the swimming actions while on land (and in a classroom), with interjections every now and then, like "Oh, do remember to stick your head above the water every now and then to breathe." And then, they proceed to throw you into the deep end of the swimming pool and they expect you to swim for them.
Oh, they won't actually say that you're EXPECTED to do it well, but deep down, everybody SHOULD be able to do it, right? So if you show them that you can swim after those rather vague swimming lessons (maybe you employed a private tutor from the outside), you get a good grade. Which actually counts toward your final score at the end of the term (aahh...the pressure!). If you struggle in the water but somehow manage to stay up, you get an average grade. If you come up from below the water surface after a while, gasping for air, you get a bad grade.
But if you drown...well, let's not talk about what happens then, shall we. Alright, back to work! Or rather, back to moaning on the floor! >.<
