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. 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.
  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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