Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Appellate Jurisdiction and Standards of Review 9
Chapter 3 Before You Write 21
Acknowledgments 25
Chapter 4 Facing the Blank Page 39
Chapter5 One Piece at a Time:Drafting the Argument 47
Chapter 6 Practice Pointers:Using Case Authority Effectively 61
Chapter 7 Seeing What You Have Written 89
Chapter 8 Following Format Rules 99
Chapter9 Special Teams:Questions Presented,Statement of the Case,Summary of the Argument,Point Headings 109
Chapter 10 Six Degrees of Legal Writing:Making Your DocumentReader-Friendly 135
Chapter 11 Exploiting Opportunities for Persuasion 149
Chapter 12 Polishing 175
Chapter 13 Oral Argument 181
Chapter 14 Moot Court Competitions 199
Appendix A For Reference:Citation Form and Punctuation Information 215
Appendix B United States SupremeCourt Rules 229
Appendix C Sample Briefs 241
Index 331
