I knew it
I’d planned to bury my finished memo and not look at it until after grades came in—I knew that as soon as I looked at it I’d see a slew of obvious mistakes and be disappointed.
But now I’m applying for a part-time job at school, and they want to see a writing sample, which for 1Ls means our memo. I opened it to look it over. First paragraph, blatant comma error. Argh.
The scrimping and abuse I had to put this memo through to get it down to ten pages makes the writing . . . choppy, you could say. Not the best example of my writing. I’m thinking of sending my earlier ungraded memo. In addition? Instead? Hmmm.
Tags: law school, NaBloPoMo, writing
November 26th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I doubt there’s a length limitation for the writing sample requested in the job application. I’d send the longer version if it represents better work.
November 30th, 2008 at 12:36 am
They did specifically request the 1L memo, so I sent that one with some re-edits (or maybe un-edits) that made it 11 pages instead of 10. Seemed like a good compromise to me.