Thinking and Writing About Law by Kevin Bennardo

Author:Kevin Bennardo
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781531019549
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2020-12-31T21:00:00+00:00

Conjunctive Elements Test: Was a lawful marriage formed?

Analytical Unit #1:

Were there two individuals? Analytical Unit #2:

Were they at least eighteen years old?

Analytical Unit #3:

Were they mentally competent? Analytical Unit #4:

Were they not closely related?

Analytical Unit #5

Were they unmarried to anyone else? Analytical Unit #6:

Did they manifest consent with two witnesses?

D. Organizing a Single Analytical Unit

Now we're ready to get to talking about organization. No matter the purpose or the audience of your communication, organization is important. A weak organization will hinder your ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with your audience and thereby hamper the likelihood that you will achieve your purpose. When communicating about the law, keep the following organizational principle in mind: always state your conclusion up front. In other words, don't leave your reader in suspense. Tell them the outcome before you tell them how you got there.

We'll begin by discussing how to organize a single analytical unit. The good news is that there is a fairly standardized organization for a single analytical unit. The bad news is the many variations of that standardized organization are called many things, and most of those things are acronyms or initialisms. You may have heard, for example, of IRAC or C-RAC or CRExAC. (For the uninitiated, I stands for Issue, R stands for Rule, Ex stands for Explanation, A stands for Application, and C stands for Conclusion.) At their cores they are substantially similar.

The core feature of any good organizational structure is that the writer plainly and prominently states her conclusion and educates the reader about the law before the writer explains how the law applies to the situation that is being analyzed.

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