Research Guides: Ready, Set, Research! Materials for Writing Your Research Paper: Help for Organizing and Writing

Help for Organizing and Writing

Online tools are available to help organize research materials; the ones listed below are only some of the myriad available. Temple University supports Mendeley, EndNote, and Zotero (see here for more information). You may want to try a few to see which best fits your style and needs. Additional research and writing tools are linked and described in Temple Law Library's Technology Guide.

The books below discuss the legal research paper writing process in depth. Additional books are available in both the law library reserves and in closed stacks; please stop by the Temple Law Library Research Help Desk if you'd like to browse the materials available.

Scholarly Writing for Law Students by Elizabeth Fajans; Mary R. Falk
ISBN: 9780314207203
Publication Date: 2011-01-05
This book teaches law students how to write scholarly papers for seminars, law reviews, and law review competitions. It helps novices and even more-experienced scholars to write papers with a minimum of anxiety. Appendixes provide a sample law review competition paper, answers to in-text exercises, and sample syllabi for scholarly writing courses.
Scholarly Writing by Jessica Wherry; Kristen Murray
ISBN: 9781531013707
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
This book, co-authored by Temple Law professor Kristen E. Murray, follows and includes writing samples from three different student papers so the reader can see how a paper moves from idea to finished product.
Academic Legal Writing by Eugene Volokh
ISBN: 9781634598880
Publication Date: 2016-02-19
Designed to help law students write and publish articles, this text provides detailed instructions for every aspect of the law school writing, research, and publication process. Topics covered include law review articles and student notes, seminar term papers, how to shift from research to writing, cite-checking others' work, publishing, and publicizing written works.

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