Walk From Vague Assignment To Research Plan
Build a legal research plan from issue, source path, and verification steps.
Live assignment Lina hears, "Find cases on directors ignoring cyber risk." The partner leaves for court. Lina has a topic, but not a jurisdiction, claim, standard, or deliverable. A research plan is a sequence of narrowing decisions, not a list of databases. Decision path ACRL Research as Inquiry + IRAC A vague legal request is not yet a research task. ACRL treats research as an inquiry that develops through questions. IRAC turns that inquiry into legal structure. The combined move is to convert the vague topic into a plan: issue frame, source path, verification step, and deliverable. The mechanism is…
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