It is important to remember that facts only have significance as they relate to legal principles. This relationship arises in two ways. First, facts create an issue when there is a question as to whether they do, or do not, satisfy an element of a rule of law.
Secondly, facts also have importance when they are argued for the resolution of an issue.
It is important to communicate to the evaluer the precise rule of law with which the facts are interfacing. In their eagerness to commence the argumentative process, students sometimes fail to define the applicable rule of law. It is ordinarily wise to place the operative rule of law in the initial sentence of the paragraph pertaining to that legal principle. This permits the evaluer to easily see that you have recognized the correct legal principles.