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| Creators: Association Of Legal Writing Directors, Darby Dickerson
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Category: Book
Buy New: $28.95
Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 4448
Media: Plastic Comb
Edition: 3rd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 572
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 1.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0735555710
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.027
EAN: 9780735555716
Publication Date: December 28, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 ALWD Book is irrelevant October 2, 2002
7 out of 21 found this review helpful
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.
 At last! Something Besides the Blues March 29, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Sometimes things change for the better, but not the Bluebook. What good fortune then that we are offered an alternative-especially one as organized and straightforward as the ALWD Citation Manual.
Very accessible introduction to legal citation November 3, 2004
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
The Alwd Citation Manual is more efficient to use than the Bluebook, and I have been happy using it throughout law-school.
With regards to the CiteIt software, I must warn potential buyers that a better name for it would have been CrapIt...
It is way overpriced, and basically useless.
The most fun I had with CiteIt was uninstalling it!
What a struggle! August 23, 2002
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I know citation is a difficult concept, but this book didn't help me at all. It was required for my 1L writing class. I struggled with this book all year to find the proper citation instructions. The layout and headings were difficult to follow.
 I didn't know how bad it was 'til I started blue-booking June 5, 2005
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
There are several reasons this book is inferior to the Harvard Blue Book (HBB).
First: no one uses it, so it's as useful as Esparanto.
Second: The rules for how to cite have pages and pages of sub-rules and sometimes you must also apply rules from other sections. Unlike the HBB though, it often doesn't tell you to see those other sections, so you're basically expected to memorize all the rules in order to know which ones to apply.
Third: Where are the examples? They aren't there, at least nothing close to the scope of the HBB.
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