Plain Language and Style

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Clarity - An international association promoting plain legal language,
http://www.clarity-international.net/
Joseph Kimble, Writing for dollars, writing to please: the case for plain language in business, government, and law
(Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012)
KF 250 K535 2012
Michèle M. Asprey, Plain language for lawyers
4th ed. (Sydney : Federation Press, 2010)
K 94 A86 2010
Annetta L. Cheek, Melodee Mercer, and Karen Schriver, "The research basis of plain language techniques: implications for established standards"
Clarity 63:26-33 (May 2010)
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donalee Moulton, "Plain language movement gain steam"
Lawyer's Weekly 28(40):? (March 6, 2009)
PER L46 SFX link resolver LexisNexis
Nelson Pierce Miller, "Why Prolixity Does Not Produce Clarity: Francis Lieber on Plain Language"
Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 11:107 (2007)
SFX link resolver Westlaw LexisNexis Hein SSRN
Noemi LoPinto, "Plain language movement extends to law firms"
Lawyer's Weekly 26(21):20-1 (October 6, 2006)
PER L46 SFX link resolver LexisNexis
Peter Butt and Richard Castle, Modern legal drafting: a guide to using clearer language
2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
K 94 B88 2006
M.S. Wogalter et al., "On the adequacy of legal documents: factors that influence informed consent"
Ergonomics 42(4):593-613 (Apr 1999)
TA 166 E7 (Steacie) SFX link resolver
Christine Mowat, A plain language handbook for legal writers
(Scarborough, Ont.: Carswell, 1998)
KF 250 M68 1998 (Reserve)
Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for lawyers,
4th ed. (Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1998)
KF 250 W84 1998 (Reserve)
Robert C. Dick, Legal drafting in plain language,
3rd ed. (Scarborough, Ont.: Carswell, 1995)
KF 250 D49 1995
The Plain Language Institute of British Columbia, "Presentation to Law Students, University of Victoria, 1993"
in John N. Davis, Legal drafting (Toronto: Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 2001)
KF 250 L044A 2001-02
M. Masson and M.A. Waldron, "Comprehension of Legal Contracts by Non-Experts: Effectiveness of Plain Language Redrafting"
Applied Cognitive Psychology 8(1):67-85 (Feb 1994)
BF 309 A65 (Scott) SFX link resolver
Sir Ernest Gowers, The complete plain words, a reconstruction of ... [the author's] two previous books, Plain words and ABC of plain words
(London: H.M.S.O., 1973)
PE 1421 G592 1973 (Reference)