Your grocery list, before taking your legal writing course:

tortillas
peanut butter
soy milk
granola
diet soda

Your grocery list, after legal writing:

IV. Analysis
The plaintiff established Last Week that tortillas were enjoyed with peanut butter. Therefore it is strongly recommended that tortillas be purchased, as well as more peanut butter, if peanut butter supplies suggest that would be appropriate at this time.

As to the issue of beverage, both soy milk and diet soda have been considered in the past. Restatement of Grocery Lists. There has not been found evidence that is strongly dispositive one direction or another as to which has been preferred on a weekly basis. Thus it is recommended that both be procured in the short-term.

The need for granola has been amply demonstrated in many grocery lists prior to this one. It is strongly urged that no deviation from this course of action be taken.

Seriously, the writing teacher today went over the scoring key for the last graded memo. I asked, genuinely curious, "how many points were given for grammar and readability?" And the answer was "none". Good to know for the next time.

07 Feb 05