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Criteria |
Participant |
Serious Competitor |
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| Thought |
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Not original, regurgitative, and thus sometimes nonsensical
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Original, profound, provocative, true to observable facts
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| Fluency |
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Exemplary in fluency of ideas and expression
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| Word length requirement |
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| Audience |
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No sense that judges and lawyers are the audience for your ideas.
Justice system bashers or attorney bashers
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An awareness that judges and lawyers are going to be the listeners,
or they may be the judges of the writing
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A keen awareness of the audience. Uses buzz words that are especially
appealing to the legal profession
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| Diction or Word Choice |
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Poor choice of words for the expression of ideas for this contest
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Accurate and adequate choice of words scattered a appropriately within
the essay
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Rich, engaging, legally-oriented terminology accurately used.
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