StenScribe

Law writing coach · beta

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Lose fewer marks on your next assessment

Add the feedback from your marked assessments. StenScribe finds the patterns in how you lose marks, then puts notes on your own sentences when you check a new draft. It never rewrites your work.

Your recordHow you lose marks, by category
Check a draftTraffic-light notes on your sentences
Past workPaste feedback or upload a Turnitin PDF

Why the name

Sten, for stencil. Scribe, for the writer: you. StenScribe is a stencil for your work. It shows you the shape of a strong answer, and the words stay yours.

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StenScribe in two minutes

A preview of the beta, shown with an example student. The marks, feedback and draft are made up.

How it works

A walk through StenScribe

Shown with an example student. The marks, feedback and draft are made up.

Step 1 of 7

Start with feedback you already have

Upload the Turnitin PDF from an assessment that's been marked, add screenshots, or paste the comments. StenScribe keeps only what your marker wrote and leaves your essay out.

crim-law-feedback.pdf

Found 9 comments in the Turnitin report and the grade. Your essay text was left out.

Assessment 1Mark 63

Criminal Law problem question

You identified the main offences, but missed the intoxication issue the facts raise. Much of the answer restates the elements without showing how the facts satisfy each one. Headings make it easy to follow. Footnotes need pinpoint references.

+ 2 more: Equity essay, Administrative Law memo

Step 2 of 7

See how you lose marks

Every assessment is sorted into seven categories, from issue spotting to referencing. Green is strong, amber could lift your mark, red is costing you marks. Dashes are things your marker didn't mention.

Crim Law

Equity

Admin Law

Issue spotting

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Application

Legal accuracy

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Use of authority

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Structure

Referencing

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Expression

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S · StrongR · RefineW · Work on– · Not mentioned

Step 3 of 7

One thing to fix

Instead of a list of everything, StenScribe picks the single habit that keeps costing you, and shows which problems turn up again and again.

One thing to fix

Show how the facts meet each element

You set out the law clearly, then move straight to a conclusion. All three markers asked you to work through the facts first.

Recurring for you

ApplicationFlagged in 3 of 3

Step 4 of 7

Check your next draft

Paste your draft or upload the Word file before you submit. Add the rubric if you have it. It takes under a minute.

Unit

Torts

Assessment type

Problem questionMemo of adviceEssay

Your draft

Issue: Whether Café Lumen is liable in negligence to Ms Ortiz, who slipped on a wet floor near the counter.

Facts: Ms Ortiz entered the café at 8.10 am. A staff member had mopped the floor ten minutes earlier and had not put out a warning sign. She slipped, fractured her wrist and could not work for six weeks.

Duty of care: An occupier owes people who enter its premises a duty to take reasonable care for their safety. Therefore Café Lumen owed Ms Ortiz a duty of care.

Mark it up →Reading your draft…

Step 5 of 7

Notes on your own sentences

Your draft comes back marked up the way a careful marker would. Red costs marks, amber would lift your mark, green is worth keeping. Tap a highlight to read the note.

2Work on

2Refine

2Strong

Duty of care: An occupier owes people who enter its premises a duty to take reasonable care for their safety. Therefore Café Lumen owed Ms Ortiz a duty of care.

Breach: Under s 5B of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW), the court asks whether the risk was foreseeable and not insignificant, and whether a reasonable person would have taken precautions. This is supported by Wyong Shire Council v Shirt. A warning sign would have cost almost nothing.

2 · Work onApplicationRecurring for you

Rule stated, then straight to the conclusion

You set out the general duty but never show why Ms Ortiz falls within it. All three of your past markers flagged this same jump.

Ask yourself: Which facts show Ms Ortiz was someone the café owed this duty to?

Tap a highlight to open its note.

Step 6 of 7

A question, not a rewrite

Every note explains the problem and asks you one question, so you fix it in your own words. When a note matches how you've lost marks before, it says so.

4 · Work onApplicationRecurring for you

Only one part of your test applied

You weigh the cost of a precaution but skip the other questions you set out one sentence earlier.

Ask yourself: How likely was a slip here, and how serious could the harm be?

No rewrites. It never writes a sentence for you to submit.
No legal answers. When an authority looks shaky it says “check this authority”, not what the law is.
Your patterns. “Recurring for you” means your past markers flagged the same thing.

Step 7 of 7

Your work stays yours

StenScribe stores as little as it can, and you can delete all of it from your account at any time.

Privacy and your data

From past assessments, only the marker's feedback is kept, not your essay.
Your draft is sent to Claude only to produce your notes.
Your work is not used to train AI.
Download or delete everything whenever you like.

StenScribe is being built by a law student. The beta opens to a small group first.