Introduction
to American Law
University
of North Carolina
School
of Law
Legal
Writing Aids and Related Documents
Citation Style
The Coalition
is a group of electronic legal publications based at the University of
Richmond. This is the proposal developed and sent by members of the
coalition to the Bluebook people at Harvard. Until an announcement
is made by the Bluebook editors, this is an explanation with
examples of the proper way to cite to an E-Journal article.
This guide from
Emory University links to several ciation guides for citing information
on the Internet.
Style Manuals
Strunk and White's
primer has addressed the requirements of "plain English" writing style
and grammar for generations of writers. This online version is based
on the original 1918 edition
and includes
links to web pages. This version was compiled by Bartleby Library,
Columbia University.
-
Legal
Writing page from the American Bar Association Section of Law Practice
Management.
This page includes
a variety of documents addressing strategies for clear and effective legal
writing and links to a variety of non-legal writing manuals.
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HyperGrammar
page from the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa
This page contains
many examples and definitions and is very easy to use.
Dictionaries
and Other Word Books
This page links
to legal dictionaries and other English and international dictionaries
of special use to the attorney.
This page provides
a search engine with full text and headnote searching of the1911 edition
(supplemented in 1991) of Roget's Thesaurus.
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