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Straight From the Scientist’s Mouth—Plain Language Summaries Promote Laypeople’s Comprehension and Knowledge Acquisition When Reading About Individual Research Findings in Psychology

Collabra: Psychology, 2021
Easily comprehensible summaries of scholarly articles that are provided alongside ‘ordinary’ scientific abstracts, so-called plain language summaries, can be a powerful tool for communicating research findings to a wider audience.
Martin Kerwer, Anita Chasiotis, Johannes Stricker, Armin Günther, Tom Rosman   +4 more
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New trends in translation and interpreting studies: Linguistic accessibility in Romania

Open Linguistics, 2022
Providing access to knowledge and information for all citizens, including the disadvantaged ones, is a constant preoccupation of the decision-making bodies of countries across the globe, particularly of developed and developing ones.
Șimon Simona, Dejica Daniel, Fărcașiu Marcela Alina, Kilyeni Annamaria   +3 more
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Easy Language and Plain Language in Germany

, 2022
This paper investigates the history and current situation of Easy and Plain Language in Germany. The development over the last decade has been breathtaking with its arrival in academia in both research and teaching. We give an overview of the development in Easy and Plain Language research and the translation and interpreting market that was decisively
Maaß, Christiane, Schwengber, Laura Marie   +1 more
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An Overview of Business Writing: Challenges and Solutions

Studies in Business and Economics, 2019
Bad writing can affect individuals and companies alike. It can cause confusion and misunderstanding, waste important resources of time and money, erode credibility and trust.
Greavu Arina
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Developing a consensus-driven, plain-language clinical research glossary for study participants and the clinical research community

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2022
Clinical research is complex, and research-related terms can be challenging to understand. Clear, supportive communication with patients, potential study participants, and their caregivers must be prioritized by healthcare providers as well as ...
Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, Sarah A. White, Barbara E. Bierer   +2 more
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Open Pharma recommendations for plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications

Current Medical Research and Opinion, 2021
Plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications are a means of sharing research with a broad range of audiences and may improve the transparency, accountability, accessibility, discoverability, and inclusivity of medical research ...
A. Rosenberg, S. Baróniková, L. Feighery, William T. Gattrell, Rikke Egelund Olsen, Adam Watson, T. Koder, C. Winchester   +7 more
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Creating an amateur press corps of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to cover breaking science and improve lay-writing skills

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021
The Science Writing Initiative for Trainees is a science communications internship program for biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Kimberly McGhee, Tammy Loucks, Sheila Champlin, Matthew Greseth, Paula Traktman   +4 more
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Plain language and assessment of plain language

International Journal of Private Law, 2011
Plain language is a valuable tool that can be applied in order to proactively promote procedural fairness in the law of contract. It also places a consumer in a better position to protect his own interests. In most legal systems, the use of plain language is compulsory, owing to the focus on transparency and openness and the requirements of procedural ...
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Assessing Human Post-Editing Efforts to Compare the Performance of Three Machine Translation Engines for English to Russian Translation of Cochrane Plain Language Health Information: Results of a Randomised Comparison

Informatics, 2021
Cochrane produces independent research to improve healthcare decisions. It translates its research summaries into different languages to enable wider access, relying largely on volunteers.
L. Ziganshina, E. Yudina, A. Gabdrakhmanov, J. Ried   +3 more
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The use of a large language model to create plain language summaries of evidence reviews in healthcare: A feasibility study

Cochrane evidence synthesis and methods
Introduction Plain language summaries (PLSs) make complex healthcare evidence accessible to patients and the public. Large language models (LLMs) may assist in generating accurate, readable PLSs.
Colleen Ovelman, Shannon Kugley, Gerald Gartlehner, Meera Viswanathan   +3 more
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