The Plain Writing Act of 2010
The Plain Writing Act of 2010, signed into law on October 13, 2010, requires US federal agencies to use plain language in every covered document that the agency issues or substantially revises, and to train its employees in plain language.
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Famous quotes containing the words plain, writing and/or act:
“We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums, and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and sufficing objects of nature, the sun, and moon, the animals, the water, and stones, which should be their toys.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“We all have—to put it as nicely as I can—our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terrible power that sometimes destroys us; but they don’t talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before—truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)