Decent Learning Tool, but Ultimately Duplicative Since No One Uses It In Practice
The whole point of ALWD is that it is a teaching tool. Great. While ALWD might be a little bit easier to start learning the rules, style guides are not necessarily the most clear cut and easy to navigate resources on the planet. What you gain in terms of usability early on in learning legal style methods, you lose later on when you have to learn Blue Book / Red Book / California Style Guide which you will need to master even moreso than you had to learn ALWD for your legal writing classes.
My school used ALWD until just recently when they switched to Blue Book. Given that I cannot see any difference between how confused the Blue Book people are compared to the ALWD people, it seems to reinforce just how silly it is.
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AWLD Citation Manuel
Don't order this citation manuel if you need it anytime soon. After it was more than a week overdue from the promised date, I had to get it from a university bookstore.
The Best Citation Manual!
The ALWD Citation Manual is better than the Bluebook because of its organization and its clarity. It truly is much easier to use than the competition.
Adequate
Our professor required this manual because he is one of the authors. It's a citation manual. Quite unremarkable. It's adequate.
This book...
...smells like cat pee.
And my cat totally didn't pee on it!
I'm pretty burned out on researching. Please keep me up to date with how helpful this review is!
