Conundrum
Remember my story about my legal writing prof going off the rails with my memo, well, he's at it again. My trial brief draft was returned last Friday & he had made very little corre
ctions to it. "This is a powerful brief," were his actual words. The problem is: I thought my brief was horrific! I had written it really fast & it didn't flow like any nice document would & my research was spotty at best. Planned to make numerous changes after getting what I was expecting to very negative feedback from the prof but it didn't quite work out that way. I don't trust this man. I feel like he's setting me up to fail by giving me positive feedback so that I don't make significant changes and then he'll hammer my final draft. But what if he's not out to get me and I make those changes I had originally intended to make & then he gets me for butchering a 'masterpiece'? What then? I don't prescribe to the theory of conspiracies but something sure smells fishy! It's due 8 a.m. this Friday & between now & then I have to come up with a workable solution to this twilightish situation.
ctions to it. "This is a powerful brief," were his actual words. The problem is: I thought my brief was horrific! I had written it really fast & it didn't flow like any nice document would & my research was spotty at best. Planned to make numerous changes after getting what I was expecting to very negative feedback from the prof but it didn't quite work out that way. I don't trust this man. I feel like he's setting me up to fail by giving me positive feedback so that I don't make significant changes and then he'll hammer my final draft. But what if he's not out to get me and I make those changes I had originally intended to make & then he gets me for butchering a 'masterpiece'? What then? I don't prescribe to the theory of conspiracies but something sure smells fishy! It's due 8 a.m. this Friday & between now & then I have to come up with a workable solution to this twilightish situation. 
