A federal agency brief that a Washington judge threw out recently might be memorable for what the court called "excessive" footnotes—48 of them, stretching hundreds of lines. We asked a few veteran ...

If you use any materials created by someone else in your PowerPoint presentations, you should include a footnote to give credit to the source of the material. Of course, you can include anything you ...

“Footnote,” Joseph Cedar’s brilliant new film, opens, appropriately enough, with the cinematic equivalent of a footnote: in a font characteristic of academic Hebrew footnotes, the words “the worst day ...

MOST PEOPLE REMEMBER THEIR first kiss, their wedding night, the birth of a child. I -- like most writers -- also remember the day I first became a footnote. There, at the bottom of a page, was my name ...

While early features were basic, Google Docs now offers a rich range of tools including the useful ability to add footnotes. Essential in academic writing and useful for clarification in documents ...

About a year or so ago I began to think about footnotes. First I wondered if I should write footnotes for the film (NUTS!) I was in the final stages of completing. Then I wondered if footnotes might ...

Hoping to combat inattentive, lazy or uninterested students, the authors of Stats: Modeling the World titled their introductory chapter “Chapter 1: Stats Starts Here.” They explained their methodology ...

Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote crisp judicial opinions. His successor, John Roberts, received writing instruction from him firsthand as a young law clerk. He once described Rehnquist’s ...

Today the Supreme Court decided Viking River Cruises v. Moriana, yet another Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) case. The justices split 8-1 on the judgment, concluding that the FAA "preempts a rule of ...

Rangappa is a lawyer, a former FBI counter-intelligence agent, senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. If there’s one thing that ...

“Having to read a footnote,” the playwright Noël Coward once remarked, “resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.” So why then, in his otherwise ...