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Title: Alwd Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation by Darby Dickerson, Association of Legal Writing Directors, Laurel Currie Oates ISBN: 0-7355-3640-6 Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Plastic Comb Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: ALWD Book is irrelevant
Comment: This book may be a fine book if one wants to laboriously learn how to do legal citation, but why would one want to when they dont have to? There is a software product on the market, CiteIt! that automates everything this book teaches. Simply type in the info and CiteIt! automatically places it in ALWD or Bluebook format.
This software has done to this manual what spell check did to the dictionary. OBSOLETE.
Rating: 2
Summary: What a struggle!
Comment: I know citation is a difficult concept, but this book didn't help me at all. It was required for my 1L writing class. I struggled with this book all year to find the proper citation instructions. The layout and headings were difficult to follow.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a new citation system; a better way to learn citation.
Comment: Disclosure: I am on a committee that promotes the ALWD Citation Manual. But I volunteered for the committee because the ALWD Manual is so good. Students who learn citation from the ALWD Manual will be fine because most of the concerns expressed by critics of the ALWD Manual are based on myths.
Myth 1: Practicing lawyers know the Bluebook. Sorry, but most lawyers don't even own the current Bluebook. Most own the one they got in law school, whether that's the 13th, 14th, 15th, or 16th edition. We're now on the 17th edition. And even then, most lawyers cite according to what they vaguely recall from law school, or they get someone else to do the citations.
Myth 2: Judges require bluebook citation form. Wrong. Most courts DO NOT require Bluebook form. Instead, they require uniform and consistent citations. And most judges would not know Bluebook citations from ALWD Manual citations. The differences are so few and so minor.
Myth 3: Students who learn ALWD Manual form will be in trouble when they go to work on a journal and must use the Bluebook. I doubt it. They will know citation form better because they learned it from a readable, logical manual. What will happen is that they will become disgusted with the Bluebook once they see how poorly written it is.
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Title: Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies by Amy E. Sloan ISBN: 0735511985 Publisher: Panel Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1900 List Price(USD): $41.00 |
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Title: Plain English for Lawyers by Richard C. Wydick, Carolina Academic Press ISBN: 0890899940 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Writing and Analysis in the Law, Fourth Edition by Helene S. Shapo, Marilyn R. Walter, Elizabeth Fajans ISBN: 156662780X Publisher: Foundation Press Pub. Date: 26 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Black's Law Dictionary (Pocket), 2nd Edition by Bryan A. Garner ISBN: 0314257918 Publisher: West Information Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Contracts: Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series) by E. Allan Farnsworth, William F. Young, Carol Sanger ISBN: 1587780577 Publisher: Foundation Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $85.50 |
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