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Asthma: In Plain Language

Health Promotion Practice, 2004
The Community Asthma Program was designed to increase awareness of asthma among urban residents and to bring more people into available care. Educational sessions with patients indicated that many adults struggle with the complicated demands of managing a chronic disease.
Rima E, Rudd   +6 more
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The plain language movement and legislation: does plain language work?

2023
Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Law, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, La Trobe University, Bundoora.This thesis investigates plain language legislation–legislation drafted with elements associated with the plain language movement.
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Plain Language in the Twenty-First Century: Introduction to the Special Issue on Plain Language

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 2017
Documentation for consumers is frequently complex, convoluted, and hard to follow. Bureaucratic organizations such as insurance companies, government agencies, hospitals, and law firms often have reputations for communicating poorly. Such poorly prepared documents diminish consumers’ abilities to make informed decisions about their health, rights, and ...
Natalya Matveeva   +2 more
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Plain Language

European Journal of Law Reform, 2018
Plain Language: A Promising Tool for Quality Legislation The hypothesis of this article is that plain language drafting with innovative drafting techniques can improve the quality of legislation. Further to this, the article tries to prove that quality legislation can also make the law more accessible to its general audience.
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Drafting and plain language

Commonwealth Law Bulletin, 2013
Producing law which is clear and easily accessible to the reader is a priority for the drafter. Thus, the use of plain language is one key issue which can help to improve clarity in drafting law. It can make the law much easier to understand and can maintain good standards.
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A multimethods randomized trial found that plain language versions improved parents’ understanding of health recommendations

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2023
Rana Charide   +2 more
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Physicians’ use of plain language during discussions of prostate cancer clinical trials with patients

Patient Education and Counseling, 2022
Susan Eggly   +2 more
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The Plain Language Movement

2012
AbstractA discipline that might eventually become known as ‘plain language studies’ is beginning to emerge through the collaboration of individual plain language proponents (plainers for short). In 2008, the two main international umbrella organizations (Clarity and PLAIN) and the Center for Plain Language in the United States set up a joint working ...
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