The Quick Reference Plain English Guide by Martin Cutts

The Quick Reference Plain English Guide by Martin Cutts

Over the last two decades, governments and companies around the world have been encouraged to implement plain English in order to communicate essential information in letters, documents, reports, contracts, and forms in a more clear and understandable way. The Quick Reference Plain English Guide is a practical guide that explains how to write, and communicate information clearly. It provides guidance on how to write better letters, memos, instructions, legal documents, and reports to avoid being obscure, long-winded, and prone to jargon. This guide teaches how to write plain English using 20 easy-to-follow guidelines covering plain words, sentence length, active and passive verbs, punctuation, grammar, planning, and good organization of points. Writing myths are also explored and controversially exploded, such as 'You must not start a sentence with but', and 'You must not split your infinitives'.

Martin Cutts, Plain Language Commission

Martin Cutts is a writer, editor, and teacher. He founded the Plain English Campaign in 1979, and in 1994 he co-founded Plain Language Commission. He gives writing-skills courses in companies, government departments, and law firms. He is a leading voice in the international plain-language movement.

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ISBN 13	9780198662433
ISBN 10	0198662432
Title	The Quick Reference Plain English Guide
Author	Martin Cutts
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2000-01-01
Number of pages	174
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