Alwd Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (Legal Research and Writing)

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Summary: You need this book for legal citation!
Review: If you are in law school hopefully you'll have the option to use this book instead of using the Bluebook, it is much easier to understand and it's laid out in a way that is easy to follow. Also the index is very good, which is important in this kind of reference book.

Someone above, shamelessly promoting the CiteIt! program needs to get a clue--you will not (and I mean not have a hope of) make it through your legal citation class using the CiteIt! program alone. If you think you can just plop a big mess into the program and a pristine citiation will drop out the bottom, guess again.

The software is not that good. I'd rate CiteIt about a four on a 10 point scale. It's nice, and it does have some good features, but if you've got to do real-world law school legal citation work to do don't think you can get by with a program alone. At least not anything I've see so far.

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Summary: ALWD Book is irrelevant
Review: 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:
Summary: Fine but ......
Review: This is a fine book, however with programs like CiteIt! I am not sure why you would buy it unless it was required or something. I used CiteIt! through my legal citation/writing class and never got a point off on any citation excercises, which game me far more time to concentrate on my writing.

My whole class used it. I would like to know what problems the reviewer below had with this program. Oh I know they teach legal citation and this program puts them out of a job. ;)