WRITE BETTER,SCORE BETTER

          The two creations of Reader’s Digest  that I truly learned from when I was in college  were its Book of the Car (1976) which taught me troubleshooting and Write Better, Speak Better (1982) which taught me how  words could do wonders.

            This work seeks  to achieve similar  results as Reader’s Digest had envisioned in   its two publications , viz., to diagnose Bar answers and to show its users  how to write better to  score better.  These are the  objectives   of  this book.  Certainly, there is an  art  of  translating  thought to word and reason to argument.  

         As a professor of Labor Law (1998 – present), I enjoy lecturing in both regular  and review classes.  Very honestly, however,  I do not enjoy    computing grades and, before that, reading and scoring answers.  I always dread the day I shall   come face to face with the sad  reality that  I have been teaching in vain because the lessons I teach with untold  passion get unintentionally mangled beyond recognition due to poor grammar and lack of facility of expression.     Knowing, however, that many  of my students   have not really been trained to write,  I do my level best to see meaning in their answers even if  there is really  none.  After all, what is essential is invisible to the human  eye (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince).  Yet I  dread sending them to challenge the Bar examination in my subject because  Bar examiners do not  wake up to plan the grandest  future for them.  Indeed, they craft questions to make becoming lawyers extremely  difficult for anyone.  For examiners, what is essential is what is  visible  and pleasant to both their eyes and brains.  He who thinks otherwise sees compassion where there is no compassion.