Selected Bibliography

 

Writing instruction - the classics:

 

Stephen V. Armstrong and Timothy P. Terrell, Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer's Guide to Effective Writing and Editing 3d ed (Thomson Legal Publishing, 2009) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Joseph M. Williams, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 10th ed (Harper Collins, 2010) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers, 5^th ed (Carolina Academic Press, 2005) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Bryan A. Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercises, 2d ed. (University of Chicago, 2001) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

James C. Raymond, Writing for the Court (Toronto: Carswell, 2010) - buy from amazon.ca

 

 

Factums and more advanced tips on writing:

 

Roy Peter Clark, 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer (Little, Brown and Company, 2008) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Steven D. Stark, Writing to Win: The Legal Writer (Broadway Books, 1999) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How To Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Random House, 1999) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Arthur Plotnik, Spunk and Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style (Random House, 2005) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Thomas A. Cromwell, ed., Effective Written Advocacy (Canada Law Book, 2008) - buy from Canada Law Book

 

Bryan A. Garner, The Winning Brief: 100 Tips For Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts (Oxford University Press, 1999) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

 

Style guides, grammar and usage:

 

Lester Kaufman and Jane Straus, The Blue Book of Grammar (12th ed.) (Wiley) - buy here

Katherine Barber, Canadian A-Z of Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation (Oxford University Press) - buy here

The Canadian Guide to Legal Style (Queen's) - here

William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, 4th ed. (Pearson Education, 2000) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

Bryan A. Garner, The Elements of Legal Style, 2d ed. (Oxford University Press, 2002) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

Margery Fee and Janice McAlpine, Oxford Guide to Canadian English Usage, 2d ed. (Oxford University Press, 2007) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

R.W. Burchfield, Fowler's Modern English Usage, 3d ed. (Oxford University Press, 2000) - buy from amazon.ca (classic first edition is here) - buy from Chapters/Indigo (classic first edition is here)

 

Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage 3d ed. (Oxford University Press, 2009) - buy from amazon.ca - buy from Chapters/Indigo

 

 

Citation manuals:

 

McGill Law Journal, Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation 7th ed (Carswell, 2010) - buy from Carswell - buy from Chapters/Indigo

Grammar instruction:

Try here and here.