The Plain English Guide How to write clearly and communicate better PDF
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MARTIN CUTTS The Plain English Guide The Plain English Guide Martin Cutts (Oxford » New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1995 fr Unity Pe, alan Sr, Of on or nerd a ade mah of Ord Unity Pre Pe i he ed State Bid ty Po ew York Pt pes 195 Argh reds part i pba may erp cin on nl yr yy ma rn i Ga Bri aa a | Contents Staring poins 1 Stommary of eidlines 9 1 Writing shorter sentences... orchopping up snakes 1 2 Preferrng plain words 19 3 Writingtight 4 4 Favouring the active voice 48 '5 Using vigorous verbs 56 6 Using vercal ists 61 7 Negative wo postive 67 8 Crose-references, cross readers 69 9 Cleary nonsexist 71 10 Sound stars and excellent endings 75 141 Using good punctuation 80 12 Scven writing myths explored and exploded 94 2 Conquering grammarphobia 99 1 Planning effecsvely 102 15 Using eader-cenred structure 108 16 Using alternatives to words, words, words 118 17 Management of colleagues’ writing 124 18 Writing beer instructions 132 19 Lucid legal language 140 20 Clearlayout 148 Sources and notes 160 ‘10 1VOR AND JOAN CUTTS, ‘Sor goxearof support and encouragement Acknowledgements ‘My thanks goto thse who commented on the manuscript: ‘Nick Moore, Kate Shipsdes, Tony Mercer, vor Cutts and Kevin Cutts Throughout the writing ofthe book, Ingrid [Rampley gave constant help and suppor. 1am also grateful to Monica Sowash, who conducted {the focus group interviews; and to Sidney Greenbaum and 1NiYibin, who helped me gain access tothe Survey of English Usage Exact from a debt advice booklet in chapter 20 ae reproduced by permission of The Birmingham Setlement ‘ational Debine, the copyright owners. The Plain English Gide intended by canned ith Pain Belk Campa ye.
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