ABSTRACT

Many people do not know how to listen to, or read for, an argument. They hear or see words and do not know how to capture the potential meanings, arguments, truths and errors that they carry. They do not know how to split the text into its constituent parts to locate argument. Every skill that is necessary for the competent study of law is interconnected and most problems, whether purely theoretical (what is law?) or practical (what does this law mean for the defendant?) require the competent handling of interconnected skills of language use, legal rules and facts.