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By Christopher Kee

The paintings of the Argument courses readers during the technique of constructing, protecting and providing a compelling argument. essentially geared toward scholars who're approximately to adopt or perform a global mooting festival, The artwork of the Argument explains in a step by step procedure what to do for those who first get the moot challenge, tips to commence getting to know the topic demeanour, the emotional highs and lows, why perform makes excellent, the way to deal with your self on the festival, and most significantly to have a good time.

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It is sometimes suggested that moot participants should not waste their time on weak arguments. For the reasons noted in step 5 of “Building an argument” (see pages 21–2), the effective presentation of weak arguments can often be a key to success. However, the advice is not entirely without merit. Your audience will have particular expectations. The readers of your document will expect to see certain arguments advanced and authorities cited. These are some of the prejudices any advocate faces when presenting a case.

You need to be pragmatic. Arguably, in a real case you are often under a duty to run every possible argument to advance your client’s cause – although this too must be tempered. There is no such duty in a moot competition. The ideal document, which everyone should strive to create, will be one that also wins the case. But in a wellwritten moot problem, it is virtually impossible to create an ideal document. Moot problems are deliberately written to ensure that both sides have an arguable case. Furthermore, the problem will usually confine the issues to be discussed.

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