Have you ever gotten an email and you don't have the faintest idea what the writer wants you to do? Well now there's a place for that email to go. You can enter it in the Center for Plain Language’s ...

The doctor speaks "medicalese," and the patient's eyes glaze over. Researchers noticed this familiar failure to communicate when health care researchers asked people to take part in studies. So they ...

ClearMark Awards will be presented at the 2026 IHA Health Literacy Conference, celebrating clear communication across sectors. Partnering with IHA allows us to connect plain language with the broader ...

Your editorial, We’re not there yet on plain language, is right to highlight how much financial communications still lean on jargon and dense disclosure. We have had two decades of initiatives — from ...

The guardians of clear and concise writing in government awarded top honors Tuesday to the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, and the Securities and Exchange ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Plain language versus structure. That’s the debate the parties offer the court Tuesday morning in Kemp v. United States. The ...

Want to do deals faster and increase customer satisfaction? Start by stripping out the legalese. by Shawn Burton What do you call a dense, overly lengthy contract that is loaded with legal jargon and ...