Have questions about composition, usage, grammar, or punctuation? Check out the following helpful online tools: Commnet's Guide to Grammar and Writing, GPO's Government Printing Style Manual, Strunk's Elements of Style, and the Chicago Manual of Style. (These last two are also available in print at most 8th Circuit Libraries.)

For writing resources with more of a legal focus see the National Archives and Record Administration's Drafting Legal Documents and University of Arkansas' Barger on Legal Writing. Also check out Touro Law Center's Writing Resources Center where they explain how to avoid the Seven Deadly Writing Sins along with other writing tips.

There are a number of helpful print resources on legal writing that might be of interest, such as the Judicial Writing Manual and Elements of Legal Style. To see what other titles might be available, search WebCat, our catalog.

Cornell's Introduction to Basic Legal Citation is a great online overview of how to cite to legal materials. Each section references appropriate BlueBook sections in case you need more detail. You can navigate through the site using the left frame, the table of contents, or the index.