It's not that IRAC, synthesis, case illustration, or application are bad terms: legal writing
professors have had great success using these and other labels for parts of analysis and should continue to do so.208 Rather, it's the additional benefit of
reinforcing the concepts of logical thought in various contexts that will strengthen those
skills across the board.209 Accordingly, during the writing - instruction phase of a typical first - year legal - writing course,
professors should take every opportunity to point out deductive and inductive analysis wherever it can be found.
In a 2014 article,
Professor Dennis Honabach aptly observed that «the UBE sustains and
reinforces an anachronistic over-emphasis on general subject matter knowledge just at the moment when we should all be dynamically shifting focus and resources toward experiential learning and
skills training.»