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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"legalese"”.
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Plain language and multilingualism in South Africa: a focus on literacy and understanding in law drafting
… liberty, due to complex and insufferable legalese. Madiba (2014) and Moen et al. (2023) studied literacy and multilingual classrooms in South Africa where indigenous knowledge creation and sustenance were discovered as literacy interventions. This study focuses on multilingualism and plain …
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A descriptive study of perceived and assessed business letter writing problems of bankers in branch locations
… composition aspects highest in difficulty: legalese; persuasion techniques; refusal conveyance; unfavorable news conveyance; conflict resolution; and direct versus indirect approach. They ranked the following technical aspects highest in difficulty: infinitives (split); sentence syntax; …
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Another man's dick : a satire
… and he was starting to get a hang of municipal legalese, whether he liked it or not. A hundred yards on he contemplated its mysterious message, identically phrased in the reverse view, and set against the same blue background that had Woods thinking, for a subliminal moment, that the Billboard …
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Regulatory Utilization: A Novel Measure of Public Land Use Controls Comparable Across Space and Time and Calculable from Open-Source Data
… by reading and interpreting hundreds of pages of legalese per city or surveying thousands of urban planners—or indirectly—by connecting land use regulations to a different, more easily measured, quality like time required for a permit or percentage of permits accepted, or inferring effects from …
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Identifying Asymmetries in Web-based Transfer Student Information that is Believed to be Correct using Fully Integrated Mixed Methods
… (hedging transferability and applicability, legalese handwaving, building rapport, exclusivity, deviance from common practice, and defining terms). The missteps were contextualized further using six narratives with institutional examples. This work characterized the information design for …
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How to Humanize a Zoning Ordinance: Practicing the Art of the Possible While Writing Laws for Bureaucrats and Citizens
This paper provides some basic principles of good writing to persons seeking to write or revise a zoning ordinance, which is a legal and technical document dealing with certain aspects of city planning. The document design field today is fertile in terms of the many techniques it has developed for …