How to Write Law Exams: IRAC Perfected (Career Guides) by S. I. Strong & Brad Desnoyer

Author:S. I. Strong & Brad Desnoyer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781634602136
Publisher: West Academic
Published: 2015-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

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1 The term “white space” refers to indentations and breaks in paragraphs. Readers become daunted by a solid page of prose and are much more likely to pay attention to a text that has lots of breaks in it. Paragraph breaks also demonstrate the author’s organizational plan and thus guide the reader.

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CHAPTER 8

General Tips on Legal Writing

As the previous chapters have discussed, a good law school essay presents clearly identified legal rules through sophisticated and well-organized legal arguments. Although the IRAC method of essay writing does not offer instruction on the content of the law, it provides you with an effective means of conveying your knowledge of the substance of the law. The IRAC model therefore constitutes a substantive, rather than merely stylistic, approach to writing law school essays.

However, as mentioned before, law is as much about style as it is about substance. How you write affects how the reader perceives your argument. People make judgments about the quality and merit of your legal thinking based on elements that have nothing to do with the content of your writing. If you doubt this to be true, think about your most recent trip to a bookstore or library. When you’re browsing for something to read, do you pick up the book that looks crisp and pristine, with clean pages and impeccable type, or do you naturally gravitate towards the one with a bent corner, faded printing, and crooked lines?

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