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Binding: Spiral-boundDewey Decimal Number: 808.06634 EAN: 9780314168917 Edition: 2nd Sprl ISBN: 0314168915 Label: West Manufacturer: West Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 510 Publication Date: July 18, 2006 Publisher: West Studio: West Editorial Review: Product Description: Provides a comprehensive guide to the essential rules of legal writing. Unlike most style or grammar guides, it focuses on the special needs of legal writers. answering a wide spectrum of questions about grammar and style both rules as well as exceptions. Also gives detailed, authoritative advice on punctuation, capitalization, spelling, footnotes, and citations, with illustrations in legal context. Designed for law students, law professors, practicing lawyers and judges, the work emphasizes the ways in which legal writing differs from other styles of technical writing. Its how to sections deal with editing and proofreading, numbers and symbols, and overall document design. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Essential tool for professional writers This is a very handy resource for almost every grammar and punctuation question imaginable. It's expensive, but for those of us who care about every detail of our writing, it's well worth the price. Rating: - A must have resource that is easy to useA must have for the legal writer. The Red Book picks up where the Blue Book leaves off. Very useful, practical, easy to find information. Keep this beside you when you need a quick answer. Well worth the purchase. Rating: - (Almost) everything you should have wanted to know about legal writing, but didn't askThis is a wonderful reference work on legal style--comprehensive, authoritative, well organized, and genuinely readable. It covers an incredible range of topics: punctuation, page layout, typography, spelling, grammar, usage, and more. It makes specific stylistic recommendations for many different types of legal documents, including business correspondence, research memos, pleadings, appellate briefs, and judicial opinions, to name just a few. And it's useful for anybody who has anything to ... Read More Rating: - A must-haveThis book is a must-have for any attorney or law student's collection. I have used it to settle many debates among colleagues :) Rating: - time-tested excellenceI remember getting an earlier rendition of this book when I was in grade school, and now while in law school, it still comes in handy. If you are in any class or position where you need to write letters, compositions or just about anything else, you need this book. It will tell you when to use what word, when not to use what word, and is easy to use. Can't beat it! |
