The ALWD Companion: A Citation Practice Book, by Coleen Barger and Brooke Bowman, helps students to master legal citation through a graduated variety of well-organized exercises that build fundamental citation skills and familiarity with the ALWD Citation Manual. Offering hands-on citation practice in a concise workbook format, the ALWD Companion features: <ul>
<li> a variety of exercises, from simple learning drills to creating or correcting citations in context </li> <li> a consistent focus on how to avoid common errors in citation </li> <li> a logical four-part organization <ul>
<li> Part I: Understanding the Way Citations Work </li> <li> Part II: Citing Specific Sources of Primary Law </li> <li> Part III: Citing Secondary Sources and Practice Materials </li> <li> Part IV: Developing Proficiency in Alternate Formats </li> </ul>
</li> <li> a detailed Teacher’s Manual with introductory material, guidance and tips for teaching, and answers to all of the exercises in the workbook </li> </ul>
 Designed to match the clarity and authority of the ALWD Citation Manual and coordinated with its new fourth edition, the ALWD Companion is an ideal supplement to Legal Research and Writing courses and seminars on legal citation.

ALWD Companion: A Citation Practice Book

Association of Legal Writing Directors

Barger, Coleen M.

Legal Education

Wolters Kluwer Law and Business

The best teaching package to legal citation is now even better. This sleeker edition still presents a single and consistent system of citation for all forms of legal writing, but the new, clear, attractive, modern design makes it even easier to use. The teaching package also now includes a new website with more than 600 online exercises for student practice and mastery.
Features:
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<li>Purchase includes access to comprehensive website with hundreds of exercises for student practice and mastery of the rules of legal citation.</li>
<li> Comprehensive website with hundreds of exercises for student practice and mastery of the rules of legal citation. Allows professors to spend more class time focused on other aspects of legal writing.</li>
<li>New editor, Coleen M. Barger, is well-respected in the LW community and has a deep knowledge and appreciation for the intricacies of teaching legal citation.</li>
<li>Elimination of stylistic differences between the ALWD Manual and the Bluebook, to help combat the perception that students who learn citation with ALWD do not know how to Bluebook. </li>
<li>Reduction of length by 100-150 pages.</li>
<li> Return to a focus on content that is relevant to 1L students. More esoteric content moved out of print manual to a website.</li>
<li>Content that needs frequent updating moved online.</li>
<li>New, more modern page design improves ease of use.</li>
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ALWD Guide to Legal Citation (Aspen Coursebook)

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

ALWD Guide to Legal Citation, Sixth Edition provides the tools needed for all forms of legal writing, using clear explanations and abundant illustrations. In a single set of rules that the novice and experienced legal writers can easily consult, Professor Barger contrasts the formats used in practice-based documents with those used in academic footnotes. New to the Sixth Edition: <ul>
<li>Updated and expanded coverage of public domain case opinions and other primary authorities published online.</li> <li>Updated and expanded coverage of secondary works in online media, including articles, ebooks, blogs, newsletters, and social media.</li> <li>New and updated subsections of rules addressing federal case reporters, statutes, legislation, and regulations online; new treatment of footnote references and footnotes/endnotes in online sources; new treatment and examples of dictionaries, A.L.R. annotations and articles, Restatements, and Principles of the Law.</li> <li>Updated appendices containing abbreviations, jurisdiction-specific sources and local rules, periodicals (more than 70 new titles added); new appendix addressing abbreviations for titles of BD Loose-leaf services.</li> <li>Every rule and example has been revisited and edited for depth and breadth of coverage as well as improved clarity.</li> <li>Shorter than the Fifth Edition (but with the same amount of information).</li> </ul>

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ALWD Companion: A Citation Practice Book

ALWD Guide to Legal Citation (Aspen Coursebook)

ALWD Guide to Legal Citation (Aspen Coursebook)