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  • The Art and Craft of Strategic Legal Research
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  • Checklist For Scholarly Writing
  • Checklist For The Client Letter Or Memo
  • Checklist For the First Year Writing Process
  • Checklist For The Writing Process
  • Choices For Using Cases In Legal Analysis
  • Choosing a Sucessful Paper Topic (New 2013)
  • Concise Is Nice (Rev. 2012)
  • Crafting Mid-Level Organization (Rev. 2012)
  • Creating A Good Scholarly Paper
  • Developing A Thesis Statement
  • Everything You Wanted To Know That The Bluebook Does Not Tell You Clearly (Rev. 2012)
  • Finding A Successful Paper Topic: The Agony And Ecstasy
  • From Memo to Appellate (New 2013)
  • From Memo to Brief
  • A Guide to Reading, Interpreting and Applying Statutes
  • Guiding Legal Audiences
  • The Home Stretch: Revising and Polishing the Scholarly Paper
  • How to Handle An Assignment at Your Summer Job
  • Hurdling Writer's Block
  • Identifying and Understanding Standards of Review
  • In Chambers Effective Writing
  • Introduction To Bluebooking: Some Basic But Confusing Rules
  • Just Do it – Tips for Avoiding Procrastination
  • Legal Research Resources
  • May It Please the Court: Additional Thoughts on Oral Arguments
  • Outlining Tips And Techniques For Class
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  • Parentheticals (Rev. 2012)
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  • Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Choosing The Right Writing Sample
  • "Righting" The Write-On Competition
  • Rule 18: Citation To Internet and Electronic Resources Under The Bluebook (Rev. 2012)
  • Some of the Most Obscure Bluebook Rules or How To Really Impress Even the Most Exacting Bluebooker
  • Tackling a Brave New World: A Guide to the Basics of International Law (Rev. 2013)
  • Ten Rules Of Grammar And Usage That You Should Know
  • Ten Tips for International Students
  • Ten Tips for Transitioning to Legal Writing
  • Tips And Techniques For Taking Notes In Class
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  • Top 5 Things You Need To Know About Writing Samples
  • Turning Your Early Draft Into A Final Draft
  • Using Cases in Legal Analysis (New 2013)
  • Using Secondary Sources and Persuasive Authority
  • What Do You Mean "There's More Than One Way to Do It"?: Selecting Methods of Legal Analysis That Work Best
  • Which Court is Binding
  • Writing Effective Point Headings (Rev. 2013)
  • Writing Samples For Judicial Clerkships: Some Helpful Tips From Chambers
  • You Have Your Topic, Now Get The Research Done

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