Essay Success Express Workbook

Essay Success Express Workbook by Marsha Graham, Elizabeth Weishaar
Essay Success Express is a self-teaching, standalone workbook designed to aid in preparation for the essay portion of the Massachusetts Bar Exam. Essay Success Express offers a thorough top-to-bottom approach, focusing on issue-spotting and writing Read more >

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  • Author(s): Marsha Graham Elizabeth Weishaar
  • Media: Paperback
  • Pages: 408
  • Publish Date: 12/30/2008
  • Publication Frequency: N/A
  • Offer Number/PIN: 0735578419
  • ISBN: 9780735578418
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  • Product Line: Aspen Publishers
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Essay Success Express is a self-teaching, standalone workbook designed to aid in preparation for the essay portion of the Massachusetts Bar Exam. Essay Success Express offers a thorough top-to-bottom approach, focusing on issue-spotting and writing specific responses for each issue in a fact pattern, avoiding external topics or issues, and writing simply and quickly to gain the most points on each essay question. This workbook concentrates on a black-letter law approach to both MBE topics and to Massachusetts-specific essay subjects. This workbook can be used as a stand-alone home-study tool, integrated into a law school's bar curriculum, or in conjunction with a bar review course.

A fresh approach to deciphering Massachusetts essays, this easy-to-use workbook:

  • Focuses practice time on the topics the state Bar Examiners test and re-test.
  • Outlines how to recognize and write a succinct essay answer through organization of concept clusters, rules, and definitions.
  • Provides the user maximum flexibility to arrange his/her study schedule and maximize learning.
  • Offers breakdowns of released Massachusetts Bar Exam essays.
  • Guides users through the process of writing issue-rich essays.
  • Supplies simple and effective techniques for identifying parties, key facts, and applying the appropriate rule.
  • Provides complete coverage of the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) subjects: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts; as well as the Massachusetts-specific subjects: 93A, Agency, Business Associations, Domestic Relations, Federal Jurisdiction, Massachusetts Civil Procedure, Guardianship, Landlord-Tenant, Professional Responsibility, Wills and Trusts, UCC Articles 3, 4, and 9.

I. Introduction.

II. The Essay Success Express (ESE) Method.

III. Flash Practice.

IV. ESE Extras.

V. The Big Six – MBE Subjects.

a. Constitutional Law.

b. Contacts.

c. Criminal Law & Procedure.

d. Evidence.

e. Real Property.

f. Torts.

VI. Appendix.

a. About the Authors.

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Marsha Graham

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Elizabeth Weishaar