Resources
Links
Plain Language around the world, both government and private initiatives, a few of the many sites you can visit:
International
UK
USA
Canada
Sweden
New Zealand
Mexico:
Bibliography
- ADLER, Mark, Clarity for Lawyers: Effective Legal Writing, (2nd Revised edition), The Law Society, 2006
- CUTTS, Martin, Plain English Guide, Oxford University Press, 2004
- CUTTS, Martin, Lucid Law, Plain Language Commission, 2000
Download free of charge from www.clearest.co.uk - GARNER, Bryan A. Garner, Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text with Exercises, University of Chicago Press, 2001
- KIMBLE, Joseph, Lifting the Fog of Legalese: Essays on Plain Language, Carolina Academic Press, 2006
- ORWELL, George, Politics and the English Language, 1946
- SMITH, Nancy, A Plain English Handbook: how to create SEC disclosure documents, Securities & Exchange Commission, 1998
Download free of charge from: www.sec.gov/news/extra/handbook.htm - STRUNK AND WHITE, The Elements of Style, Allyn & Bacon, 2000
- WEIHOFEN, Henry, Legal Writing Style, Second Edition, West Publishing, Minnnesota,1980
- WYDICK, Richard, Plain English for Lawyers, Carolina Academic Press, 1994