Plain Language: Improving Communications from the Federal Government to the Public


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Especially for Managers

Do you want to encourage your staff to write more clearly? We think these links will help you get started.

  • Having your staff substitute your own examples for the examples in this basic manual is a great way to get buy-in for plain language.
  • A little humor never hurts.
  • Before and after examples from federal agencies show how powerful plain language can be. Almost every reader would rather read the "after" versions of these documents.
    • Fisheries regulation
    • Medicare fraud letter
    • Army manual
  • These writing tips address some of the major problems in bureaucratic writing.
  • More and more, we are responsible for writing for the web. This link will help.
  • If you can get your staff to use the simple alternatives in this alphabetical word list, their writing will improve significantly.
 
Plain Language Especially For...

Managers

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