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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Plain language"”.
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The Comprehensibility of Plain Language and Non Plain Language Minnesota Civil Jury Instructions
… jurors do not understand the often-convoluted language of standard jury instructions. Some states have recently simplified their instructions, but others continue to debate whether change is beneficial. This study was designed to investigate whether "plain language" jury instructions lead to …
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Ballot Readability and Plain Language
… was to examine the effect that readability and plain language had on voters' responses to Georgia's five legislatively-referred constitutional amendments (LRCA) in the November 2018 election. This study sought to answer the following questions regarding ballot readability and plain language:</p> …
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Effects of Plain Language Revision on Item Difficulty, Discrimination and DIF
… the area of mathematics. In 2005, 69,872 English Language Learners (ELLs) in grades 3-10 participated in the state content area assessments. In 2007, 88,060 ELLs participated in the state content area assessments. With this dramatic growth in the ELL population in the state of Colorado and …
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Plain language and multilingualism in South Africa: a focus on literacy and understanding in law drafting
Multilingualism and plain language are underexamined concepts in the prescripts of South African law, in which their minimal representation has deterred the ordinary citizen from linguistic liberty, due to complex and insufferable legalese. Madiba (2014) and Moen et al. (2023) studied literacy and …
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A Study of the Plain Writing Act of 2010: Federal Agency, Writer, and User Appropriations of U.S. Plain Language Policy
… 13, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Plain Writing Act of 2010 into law. It requires federal government agencies to use plain writing in all "covered" documents "the agency issues or substantially revises" (Sec. 4 (b)). The goal of the Plain Writing Act is to "enhance citizen access to …
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The accessibility of English academic texts that were rewritten in plain language and according to document design principles: A Stellenbosch University case study
… The widespread acceptance of English as the language of instruction in education has not only preserved but also disguised how language continues to maintain the status quo of advancing the privileged. Even though English is not the first language of most students at Stellenbosch University …
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A Country With No Name
… collection of thirty-four poems with a preface explaining the style and influences of the author. The preface defends plain-language techniques in poetry, using W.H. Auden, Wislawa Szymborska, and Paul Simon as examples of poets who take a similar approach. The poems range in topic from personal …
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Developing Technical Communication Pedagogy For Nonnative Technical Graduate Students
… the fields of technical communication and second-language acquisition in order to develop pedagogical principles for a class in which nonnative technical graduate students write an academic paper that they can submit for publication. The thesis proposes an approach that incorporates content-based …
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Development and Implementation of a Health Literacy Program in a Community Primary Care Clinic in Houston, Texas
… staff that is fluent in the majority of the languages encountered in the clinic; the most common are Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese. However, there are minimal written resources available for the patients to take away from the clinic encounter. Hypertension was found to a medical issue for …
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Visualizing Protease Activation, Retrochmp3 Activity, and VPR Recruitment During HIV-1 Assembly
… like video abstracts, graphical abstracts, and plain language summaries all help with accessibility of research papers. To study the efficacy of each of those summaries, I created a survey which showed participants video abstracts, graphical abstracts, plain language summaries, and academic …
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Backward Reasoning in LLMs: A Strategy for Identifying Irrelevant Context in Mathematical Word Problems
… 20%. In addition, simply rephrasing problems in plain language lifts performance by roughly 8 % across the board, underscoring the importance of task formulation. Strikingly, models can identify irrelevant facts with about 75 % accuracy when asked directly, yet fail to exploit this latent …
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Vina a odpovědnost v kontextu trestního práva:diskurzivní praktiky a strategie
… builds on critical discourse analysis. Put in plain language, what makes discourse significant is the oppression it brings upon us by defining what can be said about the world and how one can meaningfully act in it. Thus, it is not (only) a reflection of another, more real reality and it cannot …
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Language of Exclusion: A Mixed Method Evaluation of Text Complexity on Comprehension Within Selected U.S. Government Food Assistance Application Materials
<p>After over 60 years of plain writing advocacy calling for government agencies to increase the clarity of official communication, the Plain Writing Act (PWA) of 2010 codified the incorporation of plain language in any federal government document for pubic use. However, no extensive evaluation of …
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A role for spiritual self-enquiry in suicidology?
Volume one looks at the language of spirituality to deepen our understanding of the suicidal crisis. Spirituality remains the primary motivation for my work. However, two other significant influences have emerged in my research. The first is the intellectual tradition from the school of philosophy …
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Traditional Practices and Negotiating Settler Colonial Society: An Exploration of Sport and Physical Culture Within the Siksika Nation
… research are to be made accessible through a plain language summary paper and by supporting the creation of the future sports hall of fame and history exhibit. By recentring the Siksika as authorities of their own history, this project works to reclaim a piece of sporting history for the …
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Factors Associated With Foster Parent Instrumental Social Support For Physical Activity
… this sample. PA resources should be written in plain language and help improve foster parent's perceived control to provide tangible support for children's PA.</p>
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Subjetividade na interpretação dos dispositivos das sentenças judiciais e seus efeitos na perícia contábil em cumprimento de sentença
… and accounting communication theory and the Plain Language Movement, the study underscores the need for greater precision in judicial drafting to reduce interpretative discrepancies, mitigate challenges, and enhance efficiency and legal certainty in sentence enforcement.
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Literary Imagination and Community Mental Health: A Deleuzian Analysis of Discourse in a Fiction Reading Group
… as they occurred in the participants' language during a fiction reading and discussion group in a community mental health setting. Session transcripts have been analyzed from the perspective of researcher as literary critic and through the Deleuzian lens of rhizomatic assemblages …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… feminine agency in A Brief Summary, in Plain Language, of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women (1854) and Women and Work (1857). In Jude the Obscure, Hardy refutes Millicent Garrett Fawcett's desexualized Wollstonecraftian feminism in her 1891 introduction to A Vindication of the …
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User Interfaces for Patient-Centered Communication of Health Status and Care Progress
… studies to understand how to design abstracted, plain-language views suitable for patients. We gauged both patient and physician responses to information display prototypes deployed in patient rooms for a formative study exploring their design. Following my reports on this study, I discuss the …
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