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Write On Competition
 


2011 Transfer Write-On Competition


The transfer student Write-On will take place:
9:00 a.m. Thursday, August 4, 2011 to 9:00 a.m. Monday, August 8, 2011.

NO exceptions to these dates and times will be made.

Eligibility for participation: all transfer students are eligible to participate.

  • Transfer students are considered for membership in one of the three law reviews exclusively by their performance in the write-on competition

Honor Code Rules:
Participants are strictly prohibited from seeking or receiving any outside assistance with the write-on competition. This includes but is not limited to:

  • Current law review members
  • Faculty members
  • Other write-on participants
  • Attorneys
  • Other law students
  • Work that participants have done in the past
  • Writing section: sources not included in the closed writing section
  • Citations: anything outside the Bluebook, Greenbook, legal or English dictionary, or "Edited Marks" handout.

Participants will be required to sign an honor pledge stating that you neither gave nor received any assistance with the write-on competition.

  • Participants who do not sign the pledge will be disqualified from the competition.
  • Participants who receive outside assistance in any form will be disqualified from the competition.

Write-On Packet: Getting It And Turning It In

GETTING IT

Download the packet from the website (and print it off) here 2011 Problem Packet

TURNING IT IN

There are three ways to submit your entry:

(1)  If you are in Dallas, return hardcopies and a disk of your problem packet to Donnaise Baldwin (or slide under her door if during non-business hours) in Room 4 on the bottom floor of Storey Hall.  Entries must be received by 9:00 a.m. CDT, Monday, August 8, 2011.

  • The disk should contain everything you turned in through hardcopy - the entire problem packet (which includes the Editing, Bluebooking, and Writing sections).
  • The disk should NOT have anything written on it.  Absolutely nothing. No name, no SMU ID number, no description of its contents.  Nothing.

(2) You may send hardcopies and a disk of your problem packet via "regular mail." Your entry MUST be over-nighted and marked for AM delivery for Monday, August 8, 2011.

  • Physical Address:
    SMU Law Review
    Attn: Donnaise Baldwin
    3315 Daniel, Room 4 Dallas, TX 75205
  • The disk should contain everything you turned in through hardcopy - the entire problem packet (which includes the Editing, Bluebooking, and Writing sections).
  • The disk should NOT have anything written on it.  Absolutely nothing. No name, no SMU ID number, no description of its contents.  Nothing.

(3) You may e-mail your entry to Donnaise Baldwin at dbaldwin@smu.edu. Your email submission must be RECEIVED by 9:00 a.m. CDT, Monday, August 8, 2011.  We will NOT look at the time it was sent.

  • If you are e-mailing your submission, you do NOT need to include a disk (obviously).
  • If you submit your entry through e-mail, you may attach the problem packet as a whole, and then attach the scanned Editing Exercise separately. Alternatively, you may attach the problem packet, and attach in three separate documents the Bluebooking Exercise, the Writing Exercise, and the scanned Editing Exercise.
  • Regardless of how you include your attachments in your e-mail submission, do NOT put your name or SMU ID number anywhere on your submission except on the ONE page designated for you to do so in the problem packet.  This includes NOT naming your attachments with any identifying information (like your name or SMU ID number).
  • However, you will need to put your name somewhere in the BODY of the email so that we know who the email is from.

NOTE: Choose ONE method of submitting your write-on entry and ONLY one.  For example, if you are e-mailing your submission to Donnaise Baldwin, do NOT additionally turn in a hardcopy and a disk.

Information Meeting Documents

If you missed the Write-On Information Meeting, the following are the documents that were distributed:

Candidate Information Form

  • There will be a Candidate Information Form included in the 2011 Problem Packet.
  • Include your name and SMU ID number on the Candidate Information Form ONLY.
  • Do NOT place your name, Student ID number, or any other identifying mark on any other page of your entry, or you will be automatically disqualified from the write-on competition.
  • You must also include a valid phone number in order to receive and accept offers from the three journals.

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