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In this issue : Writing Smaller Plain Language in Plain English, Chapter 8: Identify the purposes of the document Simplifying frequent overlooked customer touchpoints How to conduct readability research according to the standards of professional market and social research Five tips on writing to a judge The research basis of plain language techniques: Implications for […]

In this issue : Opening address Ensnaring perceptions on communication: Underlying obstacles to lawyers writing plainly The credit crisis has its roots in Main Street not Wall Street Plain language and financial transparency: What you don’t understand can cost (or make) you money Making the business case for plain English Plain words Righting the wrongs […]

In this issue : SIMPLE LAW: laws in citizen-friendly language: a program implemented by Chile’s National Library of Congress From plain language to business language Opening ceremony remarks for Clarity’s third international conference Legal language and the technique for legislation drafting in Mexico: an unresolved matter What our Constitution has to learn from religion Plain […]

In this issue : Plain language—(literally) halfway around the world from Cincinnati Construction contract administration— an approach on clarity ‘And yet it moves’: recent developments in plain legal English in the UK Stepping stones to plain English An arbitration agreement designed not to be read, written not to be understood The Texas pattern jury charges […]

In this issue : The building blocks on Wessel’s website: the Amsterdam challenge Setting the standard: some steps toward a plain language profession Strong, cautious support: Clarity’s position on standards and accreditation International plain language standards— the view from the Center for Plain Language Writing by numbers: are readability formulas to clarity what karaoke is […]

In this issue : Measuring plain language at the British Columbia Securities Commission Plain language in financial correspondence: bridging the consumer-to-customer gap Lord Renton 1908–2007 What makes a document readable? Learning about plain language through a community development project on adult literacy Keeping errors in Czech Drafting matters—letters of advice Tips from a unique provider […]

In this issue : Opening speech at the conference for the launch of New Zealand’s WriteMark plain English awards Judicial attitudes to plain language and the law Clarity member receives the Burton Award Lord David Renton Introductory editorial for the seminar in print Linguistic nasties and niceties: Who should we pander to? Or to whom […]

In this issue : A retrospect for Clarity Plain language in the UK Plain language in Scottish legislation Plain legal language in the English courts Plain language, the “Better Law-Making Charter” and some UK developments Plain English revolution officially announced Clarity for South Africa’s credit consumers Implementing plain language at Mallesons Evolution of an easy-to-understand […]

In this issue : Master class in English, for Clarity’s conference in Boulogne: writing the law in plain language— three versions Instructionsfor Queues Bill Queues Bill 2005 Commentary and Queues Bill 2005 Queues Bill 2005 Drafting master classes: plain languagestyles are not consistent Introduction to theinternationalroundtable at the Fifth Plain Language Association INternational(PLAIN)Conference Plain language […]

Author : Joseph Kimble “This book is unique. No other American book combines the strong evidence and myth-busting arguments for plain legal language with so much practical advice and so many useful examples. And no other book is more likely to open lawyers’ eyes to the emptiness of legalese—the style that has afflicted legal writing […]