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Reference Materials on Footnotes and Bibliography
1. Remember to cite your legal authorities and cases correctly
- click here
2. How to put a "book citation" together - click
here
3. How to put a "webpage citation" together - click
here
4. Sample MLA sytle bibliography or reference - click
here
a little about footnotes
in legal writing:
legal scholarly writing is thick with footnotes -- few textual
sentences stand without them
three functions of footnotes -
1. to document the text -- providing both authority and bibliography
2. to attribute borrowed ideas to their sources -- avoiding plagiarism,
and
3. to embellish the main text -- permitting the author to engage
in creative digressions and to offer personal, even humorous
asides to the reader
good luck.
Prof. J.
5/28/04 |