Plain Writing Act of 2010

(2010). Plain Writing Act of 2010.

Type

Legislation

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2010

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Mechanisms

• Jargon Inventory and Glossary
  • Its strength is removing term-level opacity in a durable, reusable form: one well-built glossary serves every future reader, and pinning terms to an agreed meaning heads off the failure where two parties "agree" in a meeting and later act from different definitions of the same word.
• Plain-Language Translation
  • The agency works under a plain-language mandate of the kind the U.S. Plain Writing Act established for federal communications.

    This sourceIt is a concrete mandate for exactly the register-lowering-without-content-loss this method performs.

• Plain-Language Transparency Report
  • The discipline that guards against this is a fidelity check against the source and the rule that the summary is published with the full record and links to it, never instead of it — the plainness is a door to the record, not a substitute for it.

    This sourceIt is the legitimate practice this mechanism generalizes; the abuse it must avoid is using plainness to editorialize.

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