RC Case Briefs
9:00 pm
1 hr
Intermediate
Recording
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You’re going to write a lot of case briefs in law school, so you might as well start practicing now. In this medium-difficulty class, we analyze an RC passage using a case-briefing framework to discover the author’s “holding” (main point).
Syllabus
Reading Comprehension
Test 12, Passage 3 — Substantive reasoning
Highlights
Sometimes the author doesn't show up until late in the passage. Today we waded through paragraphs of procedural history before we arrived at the author's holding. Keep asking probing questions like "Why does this matter?" and "What does the author think about this?" so that you're better prepared for the author's opinion when they share it.
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