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Changing with the Times: The Evolution of Plain Language in the Legal Sphere [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2015 As is well known, the Plain language movement has been influential in a number of areas of public life over the last few decades. Within the legal sphere it has raised general awareness concerning the need to make legal matters and legal documents more ...
Williams, Christopher
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EFSA Journal, 2023 This publication is linked to the following EFSA Journal article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.7989/full.
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Why Plain Language? Linguistic Accessibility in Inclusive Higher Education
Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 2021 Plain language writing is clear, succinct, and jargon-free, and is organized in a way that facilitates understanding. It is a reader-centered way of writing, with the end goal of readers being able to access, comprehend, and utilize information.
Beth Myers, Teukie Martin
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Implementation science in plain language: The use of nonjargon terms to facilitate collaboration
Implementation Research and Practice, 2023 Background Interdisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder engagement are key ingredients in implementation science research. However, effective and efficient collaboration can be limited by the complexity of implementation science terms. In this article,
Shannon Dorsey +5 more
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Unpacking the Right to plain and understandable Language in the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 [PDF]
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2013 The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 came into effect on 1 April 2011. The purpose of this Act is, among other things, to promote fairness, openness and respectable business practice between the suppliers of goods or services and the consumers of such ...
Philip N Stoop, Chrizell Chürr
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A randomized implementation trial to increase adoption of evidence-informed consent practices
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2023 Introduction: Several evidence-informed consent practices (ECPs) have been shown to improve informed consent in clinical trials but are not routinely used.
Erin D. Solomon +7 more
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Clear, easy, plain, and simple as keywords for text simplification
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 In this paper, we distinguish between four interconnected notions that recur in the literature on text simplification: clarity, easiness, plainness, and simplicity.
Sara Vecchiato
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Skilur almenningur íslenskt lagamál?
Orð og Tunga, 2022 Text comprehension of Icelandic legislative texts was studied qualitatively by interviewing 46 Icelandic speakers individually. The participants read parts of the Icelandic Inheritance Act no. 8/1962 and of the Icelandic Children’s Act no.
Ari Páll Kristinsson +3 more
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019 The aim of this paper is to present LEX.CH.IT, a corpus for micro-diachronic linguistic investigations of Swiss normative acts in Italian. Italian has a peculiar position as an official minority translation language within the Swiss institutional system.
Canavese Paolo
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Plain Language Summaries Explained in Plain Language
Eos, 2021 Find out what a Plain Language Summary is, how to write an effective one, and how it benefits publications.
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