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Organizations
PLAIN, the Plain Language Action and Information Network
PLAIN has been meeting informally since the mid 1990s. The goal is to promote the use of plain language for all government communications. Using plain language will save federal agencies time and money and provide better service to the American public.
The
Plain Language Association International
Offers plain-language articles, writing tutorials, Web links, news, consultants,
an email discussion group, membership, networking opportunities, professional
conferences, and more.
CLARITY
International group of lawyers and interested lay people. Its aim is the use of good, clear language
by the legal profession.
Federal Agencies
FAA Plain Language Initiative
The Federal Aviation Administration is working to make its regulations
more readable to pilots and others in the aviation industry.
Federal Register Plain Language Tools
The National Archives and Records Administration offers resources to help
regulation writers comply with plain language requirements..
National
Institute of Health (NIH): The Plain Language Initiative
The NIH Web page contains many resources to help writers achieve plain
language standards.
U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
BLM is "committed to the goal of making regulations readable by using
plain language concepts."
U.S.
Department Of Transportation (DoT) Plain Language Resource Page
Helps people throughout DoT comply with the initiative to write in plain
language.
Internal
Revenue Service Plain Language Regulations
Links to regulations written using plain language December 2001 - present.
Tools
Writing
Reader-Friendly Documents
Source: Plain Language Action and Information Network (PLAIN)
The
Plain Train: Plain Language Online Training Program
Source: Minister of Supply and Services, Canada
Google search of EPA Web site for "plain language"
This link goes directly to page two of the Google search.
Publications
Kimble, Joseph. Writing
for Dollars, Writing to Please.
http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/kimble/dollars.htm
Kimble, Joseph. Answering
the Critics of Plain Language.
http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/kimble/critics.htm