ALWD Guide to Legal Citation [Connected eBook] (Aspen Coursebook)

(By Association of Legal Writing Directors)

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“Book Descriptions: Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Organizing legal citation into 40 thoroughly cogent and illustrated rules, the Guide is the ideal coursebook, supplement, or stand-alone reference for American legal citation.  Students, law review staff, scholars, and practitioners can rely on the Guide 7E to provide precise citation rules for the full spectrum of legal sources, consistent with national standards. The clear explanations, examples, diagrams, and quick-reference tables in the Guide make teaching and researching legal citation efficient and stress-free for all.New to the Seventh Edition:Expanded and updated coverage of how to cite to the multitude of e-sources that practitioners and students use when conducting legal research in the real world today, including new and revised component diagrams and examplesNew appendix helps law review staff writers cross-reference the Guide’s citation rules with traditional legal citation standardsUpdated and revised Guide rules that are consistent with traditional legal citation standardsAppendix 5 free online access to expanded list of periodical titles that can be updated frequentlyAppendix 2 free online access to coverage of local legal citation rules that can be updated frequentlyProfessors and student will benefit from:Coverage of online media, such as e-books, listservs, forums, blogs, and social mediaTips and directions for finding local rulesCiting to case reporters, statutes, legislation, and regulations found on e-sources“Academic Formatting” icons note differences in citation style between academic legal writing and professional legal writingFast Formats preview and refresh understanding of essential citation componentsScreenshots from electronic sources and snapshots of actual pagesSidebars explain the “why” of legal citations and how to avoid common errorsSample citation diagrams that illustrate the essential components of citation constructionCross-references within each rule connects content in other rules or in the AppendicesOver 140 subsections with information not found in a traditional legal citation manualDetailed Appendices with abbreviations for use in citations and with information not found in other sources such as: Peer reviewed local court citation conventions, websites, and other resourcesAdditional periodicals with full title abbreviations so writers do not have to memorize spacing rules to assemble abbreviations themselvesComprehensive rules for citing federal taxation materials Read more”