Russell Willerton

This examines the complex relationship between plain language and ethical work in technical and professional communication (TPC). This book is a timely and needed reinvigoration of plain language within TPC research. The author asserts that plain language has been understudied in TPC recently, despi...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on professional communication 2016-09, Vol.59 (3), p.311-312
Main Author: Dreher, Kira
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accessibility
Business
Descriptions
Ethics
Mathematical models
Profession
Readers
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Summary:This examines the complex relationship between plain language and ethical work in technical and professional communication (TPC). This book is a timely and needed reinvigoration of plain language within TPC research. The author asserts that plain language has been understudied in TPC recently, despite its increasing pervasiveness in engineering, law, health communication, business, and other fields. The author contributes a model to identify bureaucratic, unfamiliar, rights-oriented, and critical (BUROC) situations where using plain language can support ethical communication between writers and readers. To explore this model, he effectively balances TPC ethics theory with concrete descriptions of real-world applications of plain language. The book closely aligns scholarship and practice. TPC is viewed as a rhetorical and humanistic enterprise, and plain language can help to advance the profession's broader ethical commitment to clear, accessible communication.
ISSN:0361-1434
1558-1500
DOI:10.1109/TPC.2016.2592578