Easy Language – Plain Language – Easy Language Plus
Easy Language – Plain Language – Easy Language Plus

Author: Christiane Maaß

Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH

Published: 2020-09-11

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3732906914

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This book shows how accessible communication, and especially easy-to-understand languages, should be designed in order to become instruments of inclusion. It examines two well-established easy-to-understand varieties: Easy Language and Plain Language, and shows that they have complementary profiles with respect to four central qualities: comprehensibility, perceptibility, acceptability and stigmatisation potential. The book introduces Easy and Plain Language and provides an outline of their linguistic, sociological and legal profiles: What is the current legal framework of Easy and Plain Language? What do the texts look like? Who are the users? Which other groups are involved in the production and use of Easy and Plain Language offers? Which qualities are a hazard to acceptability and, thus, enhance their stigmatisation potential? The book also proposes another easy-to-understand variety: Easy Language Plus. This variety balances the four qualities and is modelled in the present book.

Easy Language Research: Text and User Perspectives
Easy Language Research: Text and User Perspectives

Author: Silvia Hansen-Schirra

Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH

Published: 2020-09-11

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3732906884

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This volume presents new approaches in Easy Language research from three different perspectives: text perspective, user perspective and translation perspective. It explores the field of comprehensibility-enhanced varieties at different levels (Easy Language, Plain Language, Easy Language Plus). While all are possible solutions to foster communicative inclusion of people with disabilities, they have varying impacts with regard to their comprehensibility and acceptability. The papers in this volume provide insights into the current scientific activities and results of two research teams at the Universities of Hildesheim and Mainz and present innovative theoretical and empirical perspectives on Easy Language research. The approaches comprise studies on the cognitive processing of Easy Language, on Easy Language in multimodal and multicodal texts and different situational settings as well as translatological considerations on Easy Language translation and interpreting.

Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please
Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please

Author: Joseph Kimble

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781531024543

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Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please seeks to change public and legal writing--by making the ultimate case for plain language. The book gathers a large body of evidence for two related truths: using plain language can save businesses and government agencies a ton of money, and plain language serves and satisfies readers in every possible way. It also debunks the ten biggest myths about plain writing and looks back on 50 highlights in plain-language history. The first edition was described by reviewers as "powerful," "compelling," "inspiring," and "astounding." This second edition has been updated and expanded throughout. Professor Joseph Kimble is a leading international expert on this subject. Here is the book that sums up his important work, with a message that is vital to every government writer, business writer, and attorney.

The Elements of International English Style
The Elements of International English Style

Author: Edmond H. Weiss

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780765615718

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This handbook - for anyone who needs to write English correspondence for an international business audience - integrates the theory and controversies of intercultural communication with the practical skills of writing and editing English for those who read it as a second language.

Church History in Plain Language
Church History in Plain Language

Author: Bruce Shelley

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 1996-04-19

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 1418530050

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It's about time that someone wrote church history that tells about people, not just about "eras" and "ages." Church History in Plain Language taps the roots of our Christian family tree. It combines authoritative research with a captivating style to bring our heritage home to us.

Church History in Plain Language
Church History in Plain Language

Author: Bruce Leon Shelley

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780849938610

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Traces the history of the Church, focusing on the motivations of its founders, conflicts, key figures, and defining events over the centuries.

A House of Meanings
A House of Meanings

Author: Juan M. C. Oliver

Publisher: Church Publishing

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1640651403

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A plain language exploration of the theology of worship. Professional theological terminology is often inaccessible to the average Christian. A House of Meanings presents liturgical theology in accessible ways, free of technical language. The book is designed for individual reading and structured to be a resource for a series of parish workshops, especially during the Easter season. Chapters conclude with a discussion guide intended to assist parishioners in developing their own sense of the value of worship and its relationship to our daily lives. Dedicated to deepening parishioners’ understandings of the Church and how it has both gathered and sent into service to the world, A House of Meanings will be useful not only to congregations, but to seminarians and anyone planning or evaluating worship.

Multilevel Modeling in Plain Language
Multilevel Modeling in Plain Language

Author: Karen Robson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2015-11-02

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1473934303

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Have you been told you need to do multilevel modeling, but you can′t get past the forest of equations? Do you need the techniques explained with words and practical examples so they make sense? Help is here! This book unpacks these statistical techniques in easy-to-understand language with fully annotated examples using the statistical software Stata. The techniques are explained without reliance on equations and algebra so that new users will understand when to use these approaches and how they are really just special applications of ordinary regression. Using real life data, the authors show you how to model random intercept models and random coefficient models for cross-sectional data in a way that makes sense and can be retained and repeated. This book is the perfect answer for anyone who needs a clear, accessible introduction to multilevel modeling.

Oxford Guide to Plain English
Oxford Guide to Plain English

Author: Martin Cutts

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199233458

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Plain English is an essential tool for effective communication. Information transmitted in letters, documents, reports, contracts, and forms is clearer and more understandable when presented in straightforward terms. The Oxford Guide to Plain English provides authoritative guidance on how towrite plain English using easy-to-follow guidelines which cover straightforward language, sentence length, active and passive verbs, punctuation, grammar, planning, and good organization.This handy guide will be invaluable to writers of all levels. It provides essential guidelines that will allow readers to develop their writing style, grammar, and punctuation. The book also offers help in understanding official jargon and legalese giving the plain English alternatives.This guide gives hundreds of real examples and shows 'before and after' versions of texts of different kinds which will help readers to look critically at their own writing. Helpfully organized into 21 short chapters, each covering a different aspect of writing. Clearly laid out, and easy to use,the Oxford Guide to Plain English is the best guide to writing clear and helpful documents.

Practicing a Course in Miracles
Practicing a Course in Miracles

Author: Elizabeth A. Cronkhite

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2011-09-30

Total Pages: 719

ISBN-13: 1780990723

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In the mid-1970s, A Course in Miracles was published. It is a self-study course designed to help you undo your conscious and unconscious beliefs that you are separate from God, so that you can return to your natural State of Boundless Love, Peace, and Joy. Since then, it has become the ‘Holy Book’ of millions of people worldwide who have experienced a loving transformation to a more peaceful experience. Practicing A Course in Miracles and The Way of A Course in Miracles are practical companions to The Message of A Course in Miracles, the first volume of the Plain Language A Course in Miracles. Where MACIM lays out the theoretical foundation of the Course, PACIM provides a year of practical lessons to transform your experience to peace, and WACIM provides answers to common questions. These volumes also contain mentoring notes from the translator, a student and teacher of the Course since 1984. Together, these books offer a clear means for attaining lasting inner peace.