#12 - Specific Reference, Must Be True, Author's Perspective

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

The correct answer choice is (D).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[Min Jeong Kim]

At first, I missed "not" from answer choice D so I got it wrong but now I understand why answer choice D is correct.

I wonder if I can eliminate answer choices C and E because "most of the facts" from answer choice C and "appropriate connections" from answer choice E, both of them cannot be supported by the supposition in the question since the supposition only tells us "the facts that are at issue in a case," meaning that we won't' be able to know if the facts at issue include most of facts or any connections to legal doctrines.

[Luke Haqq]

Hi Min Jeong Kim!

Regarding answer choice (C), we don't know whether the author of passage B would expect it to be true of the document. Suggesting that it would be a "well-crafted piece of writing" also seems suspect, since the author of passage B indicates that lawyers "too often write badly" (lines 41-42).

Regarding answer choice (E), we again don't know whether the author of passage B would expect it to be true of the document. More to the point, there's nothing in the passage to suggest that the author of the passage thinks that a lawyer will fail to make connections between details of the case and relevant legal doctrines. Rather, it's human narratives--"real events of people ... concerns, misfortunes, conflicts, feelings" (lines 46-48)--that the author indicates are too often missing from legal writing.