On new approaches to writing skills assessment criteria (law students)

In the life of the state and society nowadays the need for professional personnel of lawyers corresponding to the growing information in the world is higher than ever today. The main reason for this is determined by the factors of constant familiarization of lawyers with foreign information, the need for skills in working with foreign clients, the desire to have the ability to operate internationally, etc.
Based on our professional activity, such factors as the legal regulation of human life, the solution of emerging civil, criminal, administrative and professional problems, the provision of various legal services, the protection of the legal interests of customers, the provision of fair legal processes in the context of constant improvement and complication of the sphere associated with finding solutions are of the crucial need.
As the most important issue facing modern lawyers is an adaptation to innovations related to the occurrence of constant legislative changes, the introduction of modern technologies into the industry and the gradual introduction of foreign practices. This requires constant development of lawyers, depending on the requirements of the time. The solution to this can be found currently in the system of higher education and its allocation to degrees (bachelor's, master's, second higher education, advanced training, retraining and etc.) and the fact that at these stages not only professional training of lawyers, but also levels of language learning are taken into account. In addition, such changes as the relative reduction of other subjects and the increase in hours in specialties and foreign languages, the introduction of a credit-module system also serve as an important factor in the mastery of foreign languages, including English by law students.
In the course of the study, it was determined that the level of a progress of a student in each module is carried out according to the rating system for assessing the knowledge, qualifications and skills of students. The assessment of students' writing skills in the English language, the quality of control questions, whether they are adequate or not for the topic covered, their attitude to the mastery of the English language and the extent to which they have mastered the tasks set, their independent implementation have been studied.