Language is key at the doctor’s office. Improving physician-patient communication can have huge benefits. In fact, an AHRQ study found that after implementing a health literacy initiative to improve...
I am so excited to announce that I have partnered with Plain Language academy to teach my new course Plain Language 2.0 and Health Literacy. In case you didn’t...
If you grunt at the sight of the word “grammar,” you are not alone. But, I’m here to tell you it is a conditioned response to utterly bad English...
So you have a first draft. And it feels great, doesn’t it? It just needs revising. And you have the best intentions. You set out to tighten the text...
Why beyond readability formulas? Because they are simply a temperature reading of text, one of many diagnostic strategies. During ACES 2019, the annual conference for The Society for Editing,...
In my latest article on the ATA Chronicle, the flagship publication of the American Translators Association, I explore passive voice. The title of the article is “Passive Voices Peace:...
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