5.1.5 MAKE THE CONNECTION
After you have applied the rule to the facts, you should connect the application to your argument by articulating a connection-conclusion. You may not need to begin a new paragraph if the application has been brief and the connection-conclusion is straightforward.
For example,Therefore, because Ms. Lamb was committing a burglary when she was bitten, Ms. Zahm cannot be held liable for Lamb’s injuries under Ohio Revised Code §111.1111.
Stating a connection-conclusion explicitly at the end of your CREAC analysis is an important part of the formula. Even though you stated a conclusion at the beginning of your analysis, the connection-conclusion at the end of the analysis serves a different purpose. It makes the reader aware of your conclusion, yes, but it also tells the reader that your analysis of this part of the discussion is finished and that you will soon be moving on to another point.
Furthermore, as its name implies, the connection-conclusion shows the reader how this part of the analysis fits into, or connects with, the argument as a whole. If a section of your argument is about a dispositive point, the connection-conclusion should make the connection between that point and the ultimate result you seek. At the very least, you should connect your analysis of the phrase-that-pays (in small capital letters in the following example) to the point that was at issue in that section of the argument:
Activities that Respondents exposed to the plain view of outsiders were not protected by the Fourth Amendment. Because Respondents’ activities within the apartment were in plain view from Thielen’s lawful vantage point, Thielen’s observation violated no reasonable expectation of privacy.
This connection-conclusion connects the writer’s point about the phrase-that-pays — “plain view” — to the point of the section, which is whether the respondents had a reasonable expectation of privacy.