Article: Revisiting Plain Language.

SUMMARY

* Reviews past and current resources related to the plain language movement

* Examines criticism of the movement in the context of plain language resources and the information design field

What is plain language? Actually, defining it is not unlike defining information design. Ask 10 people and you'll get 10 different answers. Yet just as with information design, there is a common thread.

For example, one definition states that plain language is "language that reflects the interests and needs of the reader and consumer rather than the legal, bureaucratic, or technological interests of the writer or of the organization that the ...

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