DAVE POWELL and EMMA TEARE are both Senior Lecturers in the School of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Teesside. They have been assessing work on law degrees for a number of years and in this time have developed materials and techniques to help students improve their coursework using lectures, presentations, assessment criteria and electronic media.

• IntroductionPART I: WHY SHOULD I? The Pragmatic Reason and the More General ReasonWhy Do Students Fail?Description v AnalysisSourcesReferencingA Sophisticated ApproachPARTI: ESSAYS Where Do I Start?Planning and ResearchDeveloping a StructureThe Body of the EssayPART III: PROBLEM QUESTIONS Why Do we Do Them?PlanningDeveloping a StructurePART IV: PRESENTATIONS Why Are They DifferentDos and Don'tsHow to PresentPART V: MOOTS What Are They?ResearchPresentingPART VI: EXAMS PreparationSitting the ExamIndex.