8. Books, journals, and official publications
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This chapter describes the role of books (student textbooks, cases and materials books, monographs, practitioners’ books, legal encyclopedias and digests, dictionaries, revision guides), journals (general journals, specialist journals, practitioner journals, foreign journals), and official publications (Command Papers, Bills, Parliamentary papers, Parliamentary debates, Law Commission reports) amongst the secondary sources which may be encountered during legal studies. Successful written work requires an ability to demonstrate understanding, analysis, and synthesis skills as well as merely demonstrating simple knowledge of a particular area of law: an appreciation of the range of sources which will help to develop and demonstrate these skills is therefore essential.