Stating Facts: Objective and Persuasive Approaches

This lesson is designed to cover how to distinguish legally relevant facts, contextually relevant facts, and nonrelevant facts; plus, how to use each of those types of facts. It is also designed to cover beginning and organizing a statement of facts, writing facts briefly and readably, stating facts objectively, and stating facts persuasively.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:

1. Explain what a legally relevant fact is.
2. Demonstrate how to write a fact statement.
3. List three persuasive techniques used in writing.
4. Describe two types of parallelism.