focus on the assignment is to get you to think about criminal law on a personal level and to create a writing assignment that relates and conveys your passion for the issue(s). It should convince the reader, persuade, tell your story and be relatable. Use personal experiences, research, and data to show the academic and societal importance and then pivot to your reasons for why you chose the topic. It requires you to take a position and convince the reader, not merely report out a series a facts, data, or statistics. Insert yourself in the story for maximum effect.

1. Step one: find a case, or something "ripped from the headlines" that you think would be worthy of writing about. It could be something that tears at the heartstrings, or impacts you on a personal level, or that you are interested in as you map out your future career.
2. Step two: tie it to your own experience
3. Step three: write about it!