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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Why the government can’t write in plain English | Leon Neyfakh, Boston Globe Boston.com

I agree!
"Regulations govern the lives of people, and they govern the way we conduct business,” said Joseph Kimble, a professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School and one of the founding directors of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Center for Plain Language. “And it seems to me that . . . everybody that’s affected by regulations has a right to understand what they’re being told to do or not to do.”
For more information about the Center for Plain Language--and its writing advice: http://centerforplainlanguage.org/


For more online resources about concise writing and plain language, check out these free websites of mine:




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