The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (2d Ed.)
by: Bryan A. Garner, Jeff Newman, Tiger Jackson
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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.
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.
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Average Rating:
Rating: - Accessible even to members of the laity.
While law students will undoubtedly get the most mileage out of this title, don't let its target audience scare you off. The text is very clear and eminently readable, making it well-suited for those of us who only need to prepare the occasional contract and small claims case, too. It answered all of my questions and then some.
Rating: - Great book!
Great book!All law students must have this one.Legal writing professors generally stress only on the Bluebook/ALWD, but forget this other important companion: "The Redbook."This will improve your legal writing a lot!
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- A Great Introductory Work on Legal Style
THE REDBOOK is an excellent resource for beginning students of legal style. It's a concise manual for the multivariate points of English grammar, vocabulary, and document presentation. It covers nearly every major grammatical rule in concise form, loaded with tight and concise examples; discusses commonly misunderstood words and their usage (ala Mr. Garner's MODERN LEGAL USAGE); and provides a concise presentation of legal document type, purpose, and presentation. Overall--well done.
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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 use
A 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.
- Accessible even to members of the laity.While law students will undoubtedly get the most mileage out of this title, don't let its target audience scare you off. The text is very clear and eminently readable, making it well-suited for those of us who only need to prepare the occasional contract and small claims case, too. It answered all of my questions and then some.
- Great book!Great book!All law students must have this one.Legal writing professors generally stress only on the Bluebook/ALWD, but forget this other important companion: "The Redbook."This will improve your legal writing a lot!
- A Great Introductory Work on Legal StyleTHE REDBOOK is an excellent resource for beginning students of legal style. It's a concise manual for the multivariate points of English grammar, vocabulary, and document presentation. It covers nearly every major grammatical rule in concise form, loaded with tight and concise examples; discusses commonly misunderstood words and their usage (ala Mr. Garner's MODERN LEGAL USAGE); and provides a concise presentation of legal document type, purpose, and presentation. Overall--well done.
Unfortunately, ... Read More
- 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.
- 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.
