Association of Legal Writing Directors, ALWD Guide to Legal Citation, http://www.alwd.org/publications/citationmanual/.
Professor Barger has been a leader in the growing national movement recognizing the important, and often underestimated, at least in the past, role of legal writing and legal-writing instruction, reflected in her work with the
Association of Legal Writing Directors, which selected her to be the primary author of the both the fifth and sixth editions of The ALWD Guide to Legal Citation, and the Blackwell Award bestowed on her last year.
Rapoport, Nancy B., "Is 'Thinking Like a Lawyer' Really What We Want to Teach?" Journal of the
Association of Legal Writing Directors (2002).
This edition has more on tribal court systems and statutory interpretation, with new and updated sources; new examples of statements of rules in objective memos and briefs; a new and advanced outlining exercise; a new illustration of flow-charting; and updated citation coverage that reflects the latest Bluebook and
Association of Legal Writing Directors editions.
She discusses legal analysis, focusing on statutory interpretation, common law analysis, policy arguments, and cohesive legal arguments; the steps of the writing process; legal documents such as memos, briefs, client letters, pleadings and motions, scholarly writing, and write-on competition papers; editing; and grammar and citation, including the rules of fourth edition of the
Association of Legal Writing Directors Citation Manual and the 19th edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation.