Documents written by lawyers are often hard to understand. They’re chock-full of arcane terms, and they systematically violate every precept of the “plain language” movement. Lawyers have only ...

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking this month about making teaching documents of all kinds more accessible. Some of this is about a syllabus, but some of it is about rethinking some of our signs and ...

In June of 1993, the Plain Language Consumer Contract Act was signed into Pennsylvania law, adding the commonwealth to a long list of states that had passed similar legislation in years prior.