Wisconsin Lawyer
Vol. 81, No. 11, November 2008

Resources for Writers

Books for Legal Writers

• A Form and Style Manual for Lawyers (Carolina Academic Press 2005)
• Just Writing (Aspen Publishers , 2d ed. 2005)
• The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research & Writing (Aspen Publishers,
  4th ed. 2007)
• The Redbook (West 2002)
• Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do (Aspen Publishers 2007)
• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Columbia Law Review, 18th ed. 2005)

Books for Writers in All Professions

• Chicago Manual of Style (Univ. of Chicago Press, 15th ed. 2006),
  www.chicagomanualofstyle.org
• The Gregg Reference Manual (McGraw-Hill Irwin, 10th ed. 2005),
  www.mhhe.com/business/buscom/gregg
• The Elements of Style (aka “Strunk & White”) (Pearson, 4th ed. 2000),
  www.bartleby.com

Style Guides Via the Web

• Marquette University Writing Center, www.marquette.edu/wac/
  
• Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (the OWL), owl.english.purdue.edu
  
• U.W.-Madison’s Writing Center, www.wisc.edu/writing/index.html

Style Tips Via Podcast

• Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, www.quickanddirtytips.com
• Grammar Grater, http://minnesota.publicradio.org/tools/podcasts/grammar_grater

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