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Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies

About the Book

With so many texts available for legal research courses, how does Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies maintain its best-selling status? By concentrating on fundamental skills and maximizing teachability.

Professor Sloan tailors the book for classroom effectiveness, with:

• accessible, clear, step-by-step instruction on the basics of legal research

• a building-block approach that breaks the material into discrete and comprehensible parts

• self-contained chapters on research sources that make the book adaptable to any type of legal research course

• helpful end-of-chapter checklists, clear examples, and summary charts to reinforce the text

• sample pages and examples of research sources throughout the book to give students a preview of what they will encounter

• an accompanying workbook that provides exercises to use with the text

Changes to the Third Edition update content and improve teaching use:

• the text is completely up-to-date with current research and citation sources

• revised headings now divide chapters into sections addressing general information, print research process, and electronic research process so instructors can more easily assign the relevant portion of each chapter

• all chapters have updated print sample pages and electronic screen shots

• the introductory chapter contains new discussions of weight and hierarchy of authority
  

• Hein Online for Legal Periodicals is incorporated in the chapter on secondary source research

• the chapter on electronic search techniques includes new material on blogs and alert services, such as KeyCite Alert and Shepard’s Alert

• the discussion of subject-matter sources has been streamlined