HELP! additional reading! stuck! please answer.

Lectures and one good text book should start to give you a broad overview and understanding of a subject. After that, in preparation for seminars, which should be expanding that basic understanding, I start to follow up footnotes in the basic text. This leads to further reading, other academic opinions, eventually heading towards evaluation and analysis on my part, as opposed to mere description.

Generally yes. Once an area of law has been explained to you well in two different ways there are diminishing returns to having it explained again, and you are then in a position to use journal articles/cases/exam practice effectively.

Sometimes though a particular textbook can be extremely good on a particular point where most other textbooks are inadequate. This might be mentioned in lectures but is worth bearing in mind if you are very confused about a particular piece of law.

Generally yes. Once an area of law has been explained to you well in two different ways there are diminishing returns to having it explained again, and you are then in a position to use journal articles/cases/exam practice effectively.

Sometimes though a particular textbook can be extremely good on a particular point where most other textbooks are inadequate. This might be mentioned in lectures but is worth bearing in mind if you are very confused about a particular piece of law.

ahh thanks i've been reading through your previous postings on this matter, your really helpful. one more question how do i make these notes at the moment im just copying out of the textbook i know this is wrong, any tips?

This suggests to me that you don't understand the topic before you take notes. Each to their own but personally I think you shouldn't write a word until you understand the topic. Suggest you read two different textbooks, understand how the topic fits together and then produce your own notes in a really really structured way taking material from the different textbooks. You should have a very clear structure and can add detail from lectures, journal articles etc. later if appropriate

Economics.

Nice term usage BTW.

So if i was to go through my lecture outlines, which i do to understand the topic they are pretty basic. then read through my two textbooks and then make structured notes. Ahh ok thanks for the help!

Econolaw ftw!



to be honest if you think that the lecture notes already provide you with a decent structure that you can easily apply to problem questions, then you might as well just use that for your structure and add in bits and bobs as you go

the structure really is key for these things, having a very sensible very clear structure makes it SO much easier to revise and makes your exam answers SO much better

ive been making good notes from two textbooks, the recommended ones and an extra one is this enough or should i be using like 4 textbooks.
i was thinking 2 textbooks and journal research as well as articles is enough?

i know this question is going to come of as really dumb and stupid, and it's most likely a waste of your time, but is everything i need to know on lecture guides, like all i have to do is further reading, on those areas etc, so i don't need to read and make notes on random contract law textbook that i have got out of the library sections etc

You don't need notes with a decent, clear structure in order to get a first. It depends a lot on how you remember things. I can just remember pages and pages of text.

Interesting. Our of interest, do you still manage to answer exam questions in a clear structured way or do you sometimes fall foul to "write everything you know about the general area" syndrome? If so you are very talented.