Concordia University School of Law, Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2018
Abstract
Remember, at our core, attorneys are advocates, and one of the purposes of citation is to prove to the reader that she can trust one's research-to prove that the law is what one states it is and that it works the way one stated it does.
In addition to understanding the language of citation and using the correct form, citation can also increase the level of trust one's reader will have in one's positions in two ways: signals and explanatory parentheticals.
CU Commons Citation
Tenielle Fordyce-Ruff; Jason Dykstra, Legal Citation Part III: Using Citation to Convey Textual Meaning, 61 Advocate 52, 55 (2018).