er is choosing a subject and developing a thesis. Allowing you to put your own educated take on the subject while supporting your analysis by argument and evidence.Choosing a subject you feel comfortable with and show interest in will make your research more enjoyable-not long and dull. It will also enable you to now find a thesis.Professor Richard Delgado suggests that you “find one new point, one new insight, one new way of looking at a piece of law, and organize your entire article around that. One insight from another discipline, one application of single logic to a problem where it has never been made before is all you need.”#Judicial opinions must be examined with a critical eye. You must analyze the way the writer looks at the law, as well as read for inconsistency and rhetoric. By doing so, your thesis will be, as it should be, an original and supportable proposition about the subject.Once you have your thesis it is time to gather information and assimilate it. Without doubt, you will spend numerous hours reading, note taking, browsing and skimming; deciding which materials are relevant. It is very important to be thorough and to involve current trends.Assimilating information or making the information your own is critical to your research. This will give you a greater understanding of your research and aid in setting your paper apart from others.Writing a draft can be difficult. Your thoughts and notes may be anything but orderly. An outline is an excellent way to arrange ideas and place information in schemes that will work for you.If you are dealing with case law: case charts, cluster diagrams and issue trees can be invaluable. Case charts list cases and allows you to organize issues by case. Cluster diagrams, on the other hand, include ideas and details with lines attaching details to the main idea. Issue trees begin with a primary idea and work down the tree to sub points.# These trees and diagrams...
