Overview
Description
An in-depth examination of the underlying principles of logical reasoning and the application of these principles to judicial opinion writing.
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
S U Only
Learning Outcomes
- describe the place of logic and reasoning in judicial decision making.
- distinguish between inductive and deductive reasoning.
- identify a valid syllogism.
- identify the formal fallacies associated with “deductive reasoning.”
- recognize the kinds of sentences they tend to use and edit their own writing.
- describe what they do when they read and state why the psychology of reading is important to writers.
- demonstrate refined understanding of the constituent parts of a judicial opinion.
- identify and avoid ambiguous and unclear grammatical constructions.