Commercial Law: Sale of Goods - University of Wolverhampton

logical, reasoned way. After you have read the question and written your outline plan you shouldre-read the question and then attempt the answer.WRITING THE ANSWERIn writing your answer, start at the beginning and work through to the end. Make sure that youdeal with each issue raised and that you apply the law to the relevant points. Reach a conclusionat the end. Do not start with your conclusion as you may find, part of the way through your answer,that you realise your original conclusion was wrong and you will have to start again.Always give authorities for your answers. These authorities will be statutes and/or cases.DO• Address the issues from the start of your answer.• Start at the beginning and work through to the end.• Reach a conclusion at the end.• Relate your answer to specific points in the question.• Give authority for every point of law you make.• Write clearly and in good English.• Time your answers.DO NOT• Write all you know about the area before you start actually answering the question; you will onlyhave to write it out again in dealing with the specific points in the question.• Reach a conclusion at the beginning.• Move away from the structure of your outline plan.• Give unsupported statements of law.• Spend so long answering one question that you do not have enough time to answer the rest.• Write in note form (unless you have spent too much time on your previous answers and are leftwith insufficient time to write a full answer).• Copy large amounts of material from the books you are allowed to take into the examination.Make sure that you put all quotations in quotation marks otherwise you may be thought to havebeen cheating.