Federal agencies must report their progress this week in complying with the Plain Writing Act, a new decree that government officials communicate more conversationally with the public. Speaking ...

From the painstakingly obvious why did nobody think of it before department: London-based early-stage VC Passion Capital has updated its standard Term Sheet so that it's written entirely in plain ...

That sentence contains 11 new language no-nos. Obama signed the Plain Writing Act last fall after decades of effort by a cadre of passionate grammarians in the civil service to jettison the jargon.

Obama signs 'Plain English' law, requiring plain language in federal documents. Oct. 17, 2010— -- Finally, something both parties in Washington agree on: The need for Uncle Sam to write ...

The Center sponsors the annual ClearMark Awards for the best communications in plain language, the WTF (Work That Failed) Awards, and the Federal Plain Language Report Card, which evaluates how ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 2010, Barack Obama signed the Plain Writing Act into law, requiring that ...

Poe’s bill is patterned after one of the recent and effective laws of the United States, Public Law 111-274 or the U.S. Plain Writing Law passed in 2010.