Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j4QFTtG05308; Thu, 26 May 2005 11:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:29:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4295ECD7.4070108@pacifier.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jeanne McGee <jmcgee@pacifier.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4729] Re: The Writing & Designing Guide I am writing X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1592 Lines: 35 Marcia, thanks for your inquiry. I'm happy to say that this two-volume set on making written materials clear and effective is now in the final stages of editing and review. It will be released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services later this year. As soon as I have more details about when it will be available and how people can get copies (or downloads), I will post the information to this list. Thanks for your interest, and thanks also to the participants on this list who have shared suggestions and examples for these books. Jeanne McGee Trenter, Marcia L wrote: >For Jeanne McGee: FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research is >developing a style guide for publications that are written for consumers. A >colleague sent me the below posting you wrote on 11/7/04. I was wondering >if these guides are/or when they will be, available. Thank you. Marcia >Trenter FDA/CDER > >Jeanne McGee wrote on 11/07/04 <<The second edition of this Writing & >Designing Guide will be a two volume set. One volume is the updated and >expanded edition of the Writing & Designing Guide, with detailed guidelines >for writing, design, and language translation. The other is a book of >methods for testing draft versions of written materials, written in a >friendly and non-technical style for people without a research background. >These are both big books with lots of examples. They maintain the original >guide's reader-centered approach that stresses cultural appropriateness, the >needs of less-skilled readers, and the integration of writing and design.>> > > > > > >
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