Martha,
 
Re/ your question on simple scientific writing:   Consider Gopen George D, 
Swan Judith A, The Science of scientific writing.  American Scientist, Vol 78.  
Gopen gives advice on how to write so  scientific materials are easier to 
understand.  
 
For example:  One of his points - to give the  context first before 
presenting new information - was incorporated into the  assessment instrument, 
Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM).   (Ch. 4 of our book, available free on 
line)  
 
Does this help?
 
best wishes,
 
Len and Ceci Doak
 
 
In a message dated 2/5/2008 5:14:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
mburton at nmdp.org writes:

Does  anyone have an SOP or written guidelines for producing/reviewing 
lay  language versions of published, scientific journal articles?  I'm  
doing this now with a small project, but am curious about how other  
organizations have approached this.  An added interest is to clarify  the 
role of lay committee members as reviewers, not writers.   ;-)

Thanks

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