University of North Carolina School of Law

Carolina Law Scholarship Repository

Citation Literacy

Alexa Z. Chew

University of North Carolina School of Law

 

 

"Legal citation guides describe two purposes of legal citation:
(1) to locate the cited source and (2) to communicate information to the reader about the weight of the cited authority. In addition, practitioners and legal educators often identify two more purposes: (3) to demonstrate the writer’s credibility through impeccably formatted citations and (4) to avoid plagiarism through proper attribution."

 

 

http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=working_papers