highlight any four aspects of writing a good legal document
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I. Introduction (Often this is an introduction to the general subject matter of the paper. If it mentions the paper's thesis, it often does it in a sentence tucked away at the bottom of page three or five in an inconspicuous place.)
II. Background (This is often an overview of some of the historical context of the problem and/or of legal concepts which are to be discussed in the analytic section fifteen pages later. It often reads like an encyclopedia or a dispassionate general treatise on the subject.)
III. Facts (Often this is a recitation of `the facts' of a particular case which will be under the analytic microscope in Section V. It often meanders through the odds and ends of the case, often giving many more facts than is necessary to make the analytic point.)
IV. Court Decision(s) (This is usually a report on the trial and any appellate court's holdings--usually all of the issues, not just the ones pertinent to the discussion--and sometimes also of arguments rejected or accepted and any titillating dicta, pertinent or not.)
V. Analysis (Finally. The author now attacks court A for this and court B for that, repeating in the process all the arguments or holdings discussed in the previous section, the facts of the next previous section, and the concepts of the background section, and inadequately developing all of them in terms of their relationships to one another.)
VI. Policy (If law students mention the policy implications of their thesis at all, the policy issues are trotted out in a page or so near the end, usually held up for display as if they were the recently severed head of John the Baptist. Horrors!)
VII. Conclusion (This is often a rather mechanical repetition of the kernel of the analysis from Section V. It rarely contains anything new or interesting.
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I. Introduction
II. Background
III. Facts
IV. Court Decision(s)
V. Analysis
VI. Policy
VII. Conclusion